Bengals love Sierra Leone, Williams, Wilson, now Mohamed Sanu
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- Mohamed Sanu (c) Scarletreport
22-year-old Mohamed Sanu is the third Sierra Leonean American to play professional football for the Cincinnati Bengals. Madieu Williams and Gibril Wilson both had contracts with the Bengals. Sanu a wide receiver was the first third-rounder picked from Rutgers University. On Thursday night during the first round draft a student at Rutgers called Sanu’s phone pretending to be from the Bengals. Sanu celebrated but it was a prank call. While he wasn’t picked in the first round, Sanu tweeted his excitement when the Bengals finally called.
Thank God!! Im a Bengal for REAL!!!! AHHHHH! Bengals baeby!!!!
At 6 ft 2, 210 pounds the South Brunswick native is being described as a coaches dream. Bengals credit Sanu as “durable, reliable, versatile, good hands, smart, crafty, and no diva traits.”
Sanu and his brother Samir were raised by their mother Aminata Koroma in New Jersey. She worked back to back shifts at two nursing homes to provide for the family. “She was always working, basically every day,” Sanu says. “She was always trying to take care of us.” Sanu took that work ethic with him onto the football field, and years later, the Rutgers wideout is on the verge of what his mother has wanted most for him: the American Dream.
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