MOBILE, Ala. – Larry Ogunjobi was a 350-pound high school sophomore when his parents told him it was time for a change.
“My parents said I was gaining too much weight, and they took away my video game system,” Ogunjobi recalled. “They took me to a football field and said I was playing football. I said, ‘No, I’m not’ and they said, ‘Yes, you are.’ We had an exchange.”
His parents were always going to win that exchange, and in doing so, they put their son on a path to the NFL.
After joining the football team his sophomore year, Ogunjobi was an all-conference performer at Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, N.