Texans’ Okoye to turn 21, finally

By Robert Rousseau  |   Sunday, June 08, 2008  |  Comments( 5 )

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Tuesday will mean more to one Houston Texans player than the end of the offseason program. For Amobi Okoye it will signal that he will be legally able to drink in most states, as he'll turn 21 years of age.

Commentary: Okoye started high school at age 12 and college at age 16. He also managed to graduate from Louisville in under four years with a degree in psychology, paving the way for him to become the youngest player drafted into the NFL since 1967. He was only 19 at the time.

"More than likely I'll have something," Okoye said with a laugh, when asked if he would have a drink on his birthday.

Of course, such an age change usually occurs during a player's second year of college, not his second NFL season.

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Robert Rousseau is a sports writer that has been published in a variety of print and online venues. He’s been writing for RealFootball365.com for almost three years now. When Rousseau isn’t writing about college football he tends to be penning mixed martial arts pieces for MMAFighting.com or ...
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