Olakunle Fatukasi

Olakunle Fatukasi is an American football linebacker for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

Olakunle Fatukasi
Rutgers Scarlet Knights – No. 3
PositionLinebacker
Class
Redshirt
Senior
Personal information
Born: (1999-06-11) June 11, 1999
Far Rockaway, New York
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight240 lb (109 kg)
Career history
College
High schoolGrand Street Campus (Brooklyn, New York)
Career highlights and awards

Playing career

Fatukasi committed to Rutgers as a three star recruit[1] in 2016 as a part of their 2017 class. In His freshman year, he appeared in all twelve of Rutgers’ games. In 2018 he appeared in eleven games compiling twenty tackles between linebacker and special teams. In 2019 he contributed in all twelve games Rutgers played starting ten of them at weak-side linebacker. In the covid season of 2020 his first under Greg Schiano, Fatukasi was named a team captain. He started all nine games and led the Big Ten in tackles. At one point during the season he was named the Big Ten Co-Defensive player of the week.[2] He was named as a semifinalists for the Butkus Award and earned First Team All-Big Ten from the media and second team from the coaches. He came back to Rutgers for the 2021 season,[3][4][5] due to the NCAA covid exemption.[6] It was announced he would be switching from outside to inside linebacker for the 2021 season. He finished the 2021 season named third team all big ten even though he missed multiple games due to injury.

Personal life

Fatukasi is of Nigerian descent. He has two brothers, his younger brother Tunde, is his teammate at Rutgers.[7] His older brother, Folorunso played football at UConn and currently plays for the New York Jets.[8][9] He has his own t-shirt company called O3.

References
  1. "Olakunle Fatukasi, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Linebacker". 247Sports. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  2. "Olakunle Fatukasi named Big Ten Co-Defensive Player of the Week". News Break. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  3. Harvey, Kayla (2021-07-05). "Rutgers' Olakunle Fatukasi, the Big Ten's top returning tackler, out to disrupt Ohio State's offense: Buckeyes' best opponents, No. 16". cleveland. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  4. Sargeant, Keith (2021-02-23). "Here's the 'unfinished business' that led Rutgers linebacker Olakunle Fatukasi to put off the NFL for another year". nj. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  5. Breitman, Aaron (2020-12-22). "Olakunle Fatukasi returns to Rutgers for next season". On the Banks. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  6. Patuto, Greg (2021-07-19). "Olakunle Fatukasi named to Bednarik Award Watch List". On the Banks. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  7. "Rutgers Football brothers Bo Melton excited to play with brother Malachi Melton". rutgers.rivals.com. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  8. Ryan, Chris (2020-12-17). "Jets place Folorunso Fatukasi, brother of Rutgers' Olakunle Fatukasi, on COVID-19 list | What it means". nj. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  9. Cannizzaro, Mark (2020-11-28). "Fatukasi brothers living their dreams with Jets, Rutgers in unique times". New York Post. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
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