 Dozie Ezemma IslandStats.com
As a sophomore walk-on transferring from Division II University of New Haven in 2011, the 6-foot-2, 235-pound speed rusher redshirted, then earned a full scholarship after the second game of the 2012 season.
Ezemma played in every game that junior year and was ready to take control of the starting outside linebacker spot as a senior.
Then, disaster, in Game 1, “It was a quarterback dive play and I went to plug the gap, when I got accidentally leg-whipped by one of our linemen, it was a freak injury and that was it. I didn’t even make it to halftime,” he recalled.
A broken ankle, three broken bones in his foot, surgery, six screws, two months on crutches and the end of a college football career.
Ezemma’s recently graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Chemistry, he has been through all the rehab work that has led to Ezemma’s football future that is once again on the line.
As a rush lineman, after sending out film highlights to seven NFL teams and working out religiously for months, he finds himself in Bermuda doing some pre work outs before going to the NFL combine in April
With the weather not so kind on the East Coast, Ezemma used his contacts and was at the National Sports Center going through his paces with Dr. Timothy Jackson, Principal of Sandys Secondary Middle School and Joyann Clarke Physical Education teacher at Dellwood Middle School.
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