Player Spotlight: Details for Adewale Ogunleye

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Each week I plan on bringing you details for a Houston Texans player. This weeks focus is on one of the newest members of the team, Defensive End Adewale Ogunleye. Overall, Ogunleye in combination with a lot of subbing in and out to keep legs fresh, should be a good band aid for the injured Barwin, although Ogunleye by himself won't be nearly as effective as Barwin would have been.

Adewale Ogunleye
- Height: 6-4 Weight: 260 Age: 33
- Born: 8/9/1977 in Brooklyn , NY
- College: Indiana
- Experience: 10 Seasons
- Other Teams: 6 seasons with the Chicago Bears and 4 seasons with the Miami Dolphins
- Notable stats: Averages 6.7 sacks per season with a total of 67 for his career. He's also produced 17 forced fumbles and has 294 tackles, both of which are decent numbers for a defensive end
- Draft Status: 2000 - Undrafted Free Agent
- Career Accomplishments & Awards: Pro Bowl in 2003; Also helped lead the Bears to the Superbowl in 2005
- Strength: Very good at getting to the Quarterback in his career
- Weakness: Missed the end of last season because of a fractured fibula - a hard injury to come back from (especially at 33).
- Trivia: He is of Nigerian decent. Supposedly he's also the grandson of a king. (but that's just from wikipedia, so who knows if it's true)

However you look at it, Ogunleye is a needed addition to the Texans defensive line if he can stay healthy and as effective as he has been through his career. Even if he only recorded 4 sacks throughout the year, that would be a much needed relief to the other guys up front.