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EMU TE Thomas Odukoya ready for Detroit Lions' local day: I'm 'a kneecap guy, too'

The first ever College Football Playoff game made a dreamer out of Thomas Odukoya. Now, the Eastern Michigan tight end is on the verge of turning his fantasy into reality.

A budding football star at the time, the 17-year-old Odukoya watched Oregon beat Florida State in the 2015 Rose Bowl with five of his buddies on an illegal stream at his home in Almere, Netherlands.