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Meet Romeo Okwara, the Detroit Lions' fascinating mechanical man: 'I like using my damn legs'

Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez preview the Detroit Lions' home game against the New York Giants on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, at Ford Field. Carlos Monarrez and Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press

Romeo Okwara is into mechanical things. Lots of mechanical things. Typewriters and turntables. Film cameras. Manual transmission cars.

As the world becomes increasingly automated with high-tech gadgetry, the defensive end, whom the Detroit Lions picked up off waivers in September 2018, is a bit of an anachronism, an old-soul warrior fighting to retain autonomy over the tools in our daily lives.