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Rome Odunze will apt beryllium 1 of nan first wide receivers taken disconnected nan committee successful nan NFL Draft Thursday nighttime aft putting together a stellar collegiate profession pinch nan Washington Huskies.
Odunze came connected beardown for Washington successful his past 2 seasons.
He caught 75 passes for 1,145 yards and 7 touchdowns successful 2022. He had 92 catches for 1,640 yards and 13 touchdowns arsenic the Huskies precocious to nan nationalist title crippled past season.
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Rome Odunze of nan Washington Huskies anterior to nan Pac-12 title crippled against nan Oregon Ducks astatine Allegiant Stadium Dec. 1, 2023, successful Las Vegas. (Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images)
By Friday morning, Odunze will apt cognize which squad he will beryllium catching passes for this fall. He could beryllium a top-10 prime pinch a tally connected quarterbacks expected early. Odunze, Marvin Harrison Jr. and Malik Nabers are nan apical receivers.
For now, Odunze's keeping a level head.
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"I’m a beautiful cool, calm, collected benignant of guy, and that’s precisely really I’m benignant of approaching that situation," he told Fox News Digital. "I don’t cognize precisely wherever I’ll extremity up, and I don’t want to beryllium disappointed pinch thing if I had picked a favourite squad aliases thing — which I haven’t. I’m conscionable enjoying nan process and immoderate happens, happens."
Odunze played astatine Washington each 4 years of his collegiate career, which intends astir of nan East Coast astir apt didn’t get to spot him speech from nan uncommon 3:30 p.m. ET crippled aliases successful nan College Football Playoff.
He shared pinch Fox News Digital what fans should cognize astir him.
Washington Huskies wide receiver Rome Odunze (1) catches a walk during nan CFP semifinal Sugar Bowl against nan Texas Longhorns Jan. 1, 2024, astatine nan Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans. (John Korduner/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
"I deliberation that I’m a beautiful complete wide receiver," he said. "I deliberation that I supply a batch of skills to an discourtesy and versatility to an offense. And I deliberation I do it successful a beautiful blue-collar way. Not excessively loud, but I emotion to beryllium hype and consciousness nan emotions of nan crippled arsenic well.
"But conscionable personification who is going to spell successful location and activity difficult and hopefully make immoderate instrumentality guidelines proud and happy to proceed to guidelines maine on. But that’s thing I tin show you amended than I tin show you."
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Odunze and erstwhile Washington teammate Michael Penix Jr. collaborated pinch Sharpie up of nan draft. Odunze said he’s going to beryllium teaming pinch nan institution for his full rookie play and will beryllium utilizing Sharpie S-Gel Pens to motion his rookie statement and autographs.
He went done a Sharpie Signature Combine pinch Penix to get fresh for erstwhile nan first pro statement comes.
Rome Odunze of nan Washington Huskies warms up earlier nan 2024 CFP nationalist title crippled against nan Michigan Wolverines astatine NRG Stadium Jan. 8, 2024, successful Houston. (Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
"I utilized to do that arsenic a kid a lot," he told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked if he was practicing his signature. "Any clip I switched up nan signature I want to cleanable it. There was a bully magnitude of clip wherever I was filling up sheets of insubstantial pinch signatures to benignant of get it right."
Odunze has had immoderate believe already utilizing his signatures. He said fans person already asked him to motion a number of items, including a drafting of him erstwhile he was playing for nan Huskies.
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Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
