joined the Chargers<\/a> after he failed to earn a spot with the Philadelphia Eagles when he attended a rookie minicamp in May.<\/p>\nHe will now compete to earn a place on the Chargers’ final 53-man active roster for 2024.<\/p>\n
Olatoke was born in Nigeria but moved to Scotland when he was just five years old and was a pupil at Cardonald Primary School in Glasgow before attending St Columba\u2019s in Kilmacolm.<\/p>\n
“It’s a crazy journey, honestly,” he said. “I was just talking to my mom yesterday about how far I’ve came from.<\/p>\n
“From Kinning Park to Los Angeles is just nuts to think about the different directions and countries and cities taken to get here, so I it feels great. It was a crazy story.<\/p>\n
“I strive to live like a life of adventure and this is something that sort of proves that. I’m just going for adventure. Yeah, I’m excited. I’m ready to see where this takes me.”<\/p>\n
Olatoke says that, after the disappointment of missing out on a place with the Eagles, he was unsure if his dream of playing NFL would come true. Then the call came from LA.<\/p>\n
“To be very, very candid, after I got back from Philadelphia, I didn’t know if the league was going to work out for me.” he said. “So I spent two three weeks sort of decompressing from football, reflecting on what I want to do.<\/p>\n
“I was starting to make moves like my next adventure. I didn’t know where life was going next. <\/p>\n
“But I don’t limit myself and what I think I can do. I want to go to Mars, so I’ll go to the Moon. Eventually, I think I’ll do it.”<\/p>\n
Olatoke will return to Scotland next week then head back to the United States for thw Chargers’ four-week summer training camp before the start of the NFL season in September.<\/p>\n
Because he joined 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, he does not count towards the Chargers’ 90-man off-season roster during training camp.<\/p>\n
The Chargers will gradually cut the 90-man roster down to 53 before September. <\/p>\n
Olatoke would also not count towards the Chargers’ practice squad limit if he were to land a spot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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