{"id":18731,"date":"2024-06-16T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T11:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-praise-olatoke-signed-as-wide-receiver-with-los-angeles-chargers\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T11:31:37","slug":"nfl-praise-olatoke-signed-as-wide-receiver-with-los-angeles-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-praise-olatoke-signed-as-wide-receiver-with-los-angeles-chargers\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Praise Olatoke signed as wide receiver with Los Angeles Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scottish athlete Praise Olatoke has been signed by the Los Angeles Chargers as a wide receiver after impressing the NFL side during tryouts.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old, who was born in Nigeria and raised in Glasgow, was at Ohio State University as a sprinter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olatoke has recorded a 10.27-second 100m time and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/68547881\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told BBC Sport Scotland<\/a> earlier this year than competing in the NFL had been his lifelong dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt&#8217;s always been something since I was 15 I wanted to do,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that the doors are open, I have to take it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He joins the side via the NFL\u2019s international pathway programme, which gives 16 athletes from the around the world the opportunity to train with and earn a spot on a top team\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cyxx2wdz255o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish athlete Praise Olatoke has been signed by the Los Angeles Chargers as a wide receiver after impressing the NFL side during tryouts. The 23-year-old, who was born in Nigeria and raised in Glasgow, was at Ohio State University as a sprinter. Olatoke has recorded a 10.27-second 100m time and told BBC Sport Scotland earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18733,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions\/18733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}