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2024 Football Roster

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  • S
    Position
  • Graduate Student
    Class
  • Bellflower, Calif.
    Hometown
  • 6'2
    Height
  • 200
    Weight
  • Bellflower HS/Cerritos College
    High School
Omari Okeke
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Omari Okeke
S
Position
Graduate Student
Class
Bellflower, Calif.
Hometown

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Biography

CAREER NOTES
Has played in 17 career games with two starts … has 30 career tackles (12 solo), which includes 2.5 tackles for loss, to go along with one pass breakup.

2024 (REDSHIRT JUNIOR SEASON)
Played in seven games with one start … finished the season with 12 tackles (4 solo), which included 0.5 tackles for loss … had a career-high seven tackles against UNLV (10/11) in his only start of the season … recorded two tackles, including 0.5 tackles for loss, against No. 12 Utah (9/14).

2023 (REDSHIRT)
Redshirted the season due to injury as he did not appear in any games.

2022 (SOPHOMORE SEASON) 
Played in 10 games and made his first career start against Air Force (10/8) … finished the season with 18 tackles (8-solo), which included 2.0 tackles for loss, to go along with one pass breakup … had a career high four tackles at Alabama (9/3) … added four tackles, including 1.0 tackles for loss, against UNLV (9/24) … had three tackles against Weber State (9/10) … added two stops, including 1.0 tackles for loss, at Hawai’i (11/12) … had two tackles against Memphis (12/27) in the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl … lone pass breakup during the season was against San José State (11/19).

JUNIOR COLLEGE 
Played two seasons (2019, 2021) at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California … recorded 15 tackles, including 0.5 sacks, while adding one pass breakup across four games during the 2021 season … had 35 tackles as a freshman in 2019, while leading the team with two interceptions … added a fumble recovery and pass breakup … had a season high eight stops against El Camino College and seven tackles against Ventura College in the postseason bowl game … recorded his interceptions against East Los Angeles College and Palomar College, and combined to return them 45 yards.

HIGH SCHOOL 
Earned first-team All-Suburban League honors his senior year as a wide receiver at Bellflower (California) High School … had 772 receiving yards with a 17.2 yards per catch average and nine touchdowns … recorded nine tackles, which included 3.0 tackles for loss, as well as a forced fumble, fumble recovery, interception for a touchdown a pass deflection in a game … spent four years on the football team and three season with the track and field team.  

PERSONAL 
Son of Obi Okeke and Maria Salazar ... is related to Chidobe Awuzie of the Dallas Cowboys … has three younger siblings ... graduated from Utah State in the fall of 2023 with a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and is pursuing his master's in business administration. 

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