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Rotoworld Football Show – Fantasy Football

Conversation with RB Devine Ozigbo: Accelerating Over Speed Bumps

Rotoworld Football Show – Fantasy Football

NBC Sports, Pat Daugherty, Kyle Dvorchak, Denny Carter

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Josh Norris hosts one of his favorite prospects in the 2019 NFL Draft, RB Devine Ozigbo out of Nebraska. Ozigbo's collegiate career was not an easy one, as he was forced to wait for his opportunity. So the conversation hits on self-reflection, improvement and not losing sight of goals. Plus, you know, football stuff.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Hello friends welcome back to another episode of the Rotow World Football

0:19.5

Podcast. It's the most warm podcast in the universe. Thank you so much for making it so. My name is Josh Norris here again

0:25.7

This time with Nebraska senior running back divine O'Zigboe. O'Zigboe was not at the NFL combine so I understand if some of you do not know his name.

0:35.4

I found out who he was when I was cramming in prospects ahead of East West Shrine Week.

0:40.7

I try to watch all the players before that all-star event, so at least I have some

0:45.6

level or foundation of an evaluation for them. And really that event is all about capturing

0:51.1

maybe the 10 to 15 prospects that really stand out among the rest.

0:56.4

And I gotta say, like every year, you know, the term giraffe crush gets thrown around.

1:00.6

It truly was instant with Devino Zigbo when I was watching his games.

1:05.0

Then you kind of dig in a little bit more about him.

1:08.0

It wasn't an easy path for Ozigbo.

1:11.0

I mean, he barely played until 2018. I mean in 2016 he had one start and

1:16.1

97 carries to go along with five receptions. In 2017 he had 129 carries and

1:22.0

16 receptions to go along with three starts.

1:24.6

But in 2018, with obviously Scott Frost coming in from UCF,

1:29.0

Ozigbo racked up 155 carries for 1,82 yards and 12 touchdowns 23 receptions for 203 yards.

1:38.1

I really think you should all go and search his games on you two to go and watch the full clips. They're a lot of fun. I mean he's a bigger back around six feet

1:46.0

228 pounds. He's got some real jets to him some big play skills as well.

1:51.0

And because of that different path, you know, he wasn't a top recruit, this conversation kind of features a lot of self-reflection. I tried to, you know, bring out those ups and downs of the college career and really what can change in an entire year for someone's future.

2:05.0

Before that though I do want to thank a few of you who left five-star reviews.

2:09.0

Go out and do that if you enjoy this podcast hit that subscribe button, Beargy 27, Martin O.D. West B. 23, Lucas, T.C. 1.

2:16.8

Thank you, thank you for the reviews. You can all leave them on iTunes as well.

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