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Detroit Lions' Jeff Okudah loves football so much, it can drive his coaches up a wall

A look at the players the Detroit Lions added in the 2020 NFL draft. Detroit Free Press

At this point, there are so many stories about Jeff Okudah’s obsessive devotion to football and the lengths he has gone to in the pursuit of perfecting his craft that they are starting to take on an almost mythological feel.

Like rumors surrounding Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster or Darko Milicic’s talent, stories of Okudah’s maniacal learning are no less wondrous and nearly unbelievable.

Before the Detroit Lions made him the No. 3 overall pick in April's draft, Okudah played at Ohio State, where he pestered one coach about watching film — while the coach was moving into his new house on a Saturday morning.