Olisaemeka Udohreturns to Minnesota for his fifth season in the NFL and fifth with the team. In 2022, he appeared in 17 regular-season games (one start), and one playoff start, and was part of an offensive line that helped the Vikings average 22.5 first downs per game, the fourth-best in the league, and finish sixth in the NFL in passing yards per game (263.8). Udoh was a sixth-round pick (193rd overall) of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Vikings, playing in 41 games, making 17 starts over four seasons with the club. The Fayetteville, North Carolina, native started 45 consecutive games at Elon and earned Phil Steele FCS First-Team All-America honors in 2018 as a senior.
• Donated 500 meals to workers at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center as they worked around the clock to treat Coronavirus patients.
• Name is pronounced OH-lee-suh-MEE-kah OO-doh, translates to "God is good."
• Earned degree in exercise science in spring 2018, playing final season at Elon as a graduate.
• Parents, Benjamin and Rita, are a doctor and nurse in their own medical practice, Hanora Medical Center in Fayetteville.
• Both parents were born in Nigeria, and the family regularly visits relatives there.
• Sister Ona was a starter on the Wake Forest WBB team, playing her final season in 2019-20.
• Younger brother, Ezemdi, is on the football team at North Carolina State, entering his 1st season in 2020.
• Selected in the 6th round (#193) in the 2019 NFL Draft.
• The 2nd Elon player drafted by the Vikings.
• Is the highest-drafted Elon player since RB Jimmy Smith by Washington in 1984 (4th Rd., #102).
• Played in season-opener vs. Green Bay (9/13), at Indianapolis (9/20), vs. Tennessee (9/27), at Chicago (11/16), vs. Dallas (11/22), vs. Carolina (11/29) and in season finale at Detroit (1/3/21).
• Inactive at Houston (10/4), at Seattle (10/11), at Green Bay (11/1), vs. Detroit (11/8), vs. Jacksonville (12/6), at Tampa Bay (12/13).
• Did not play at New Orleans (12/25).
• Made his NFL debut vs. Chicago (12/29), playing at RT when most starters were held out of the game.
• Inactive in the Divisional game at San Francisco (1/11/20) and the Wild Card game at New Orleans (1/5).
• Started 45 consecutive games after redshirting in 2014.
• As a redshirt senior in 2018, earned a Phil Steele FCS 1st-Team All-America honors after the season.
• Earned an invite to the NFL Combine, Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine game.
• A 1st-Team All-Colonial Athletic Association pick as a senior.
• Elon averaged 199.5 yards per game on the ground to finish 2nd in the CAA in 2018.
• Helped Elon to a 8-4 record in 2017 and a berth in the FCS Playoffs and went 6-5 as a senior with a playoff berth.
• Helped team rebound from a 2-9 mark as a sophomore to earn consecutive playoff berths as a junior and senior.
• A 2nd-Team Cape Fear Region honoree as a senior.
• Helped program to state playoffs in 2012 and 2013.
• Was a NCHSAA student-athlete honoree in 2012 and 2013.
• An A/AB honor roll student.
• Played 1 season of offensive line as a senior; played DL as sophomore and junior.
