Olakunle Fatukasi, an American football linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League, was born on June 11, 1999. (NFL). At Rutgers, he played collegiate football.
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They are the sons of Nigerian immigrants; their mother, Ifedola, works as a substance abuse counselor in Brooklyn, and their father, Michael, is a retired accountant.
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Fatukasi is of Nigerian descent. His younger brother Tunde previously played at Rutgers and now plays at Bowling Green. His older brother, Folorunso, played football at UConn and now plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He owns O3, a t-shirt company.
Fatukasi committed to Rutgers in 2016 as a three-star recruit as part of their 2017 class. He started all twelve games for Rutgers his freshman year. He appeared in eleven games in 2018, totaling twenty tackles between linebacker and special teams. In 2019, he appeared in all twelve games for Rutgers, starting ten at a weak-side linebacker. Fatukasi was named team captain in the 2020 covid season, his first under Greg Schiano. He started all nine games and had the most tackles in the Big Ten. He was named Big Ten Co-Defensive Player of the Week during the season.
He has named a Butkus Award semi-finalist and was named first-team All-Big Ten by the media and second-team by the coaches. Due to the NCAA covid exemption, he returned to Rutgers for the 2021 season. [5] He announced that he would move from outside to inside linebacker for the 2021 season. Despite missing multiple games due to injury, he finished the 2021 season as a third-team All-Big Ten selection.
