Prince Tega Wanogho is a member of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He was born in Nigeria on November 22, 1997, and he now holds the position of offensive lineman for the team.
It is currently the second season he has spent with the Chiefs (NFL). In 2020, the Philadelphia Eagles picked him up in the sixth round of the National Football League Draft after he had spent the previous four years playing collegiate football at Auburn.
Wanogho’s childhood was spent in Delta State, Nigeria; nevertheless, in 2014 he uprooted his life and moved to Alabama in the pursuit of a career as a professional basketball player.
Edgewood Academy, located in Elmore, Alabama, was where he completed his formal education, and it was there that he honed his abilities as a defensive lineman in the game of football.
Despite the fact that Wanogho had only played one year of football before to committing to play collegiate football at Auburn University,
he was rated as a four-star recruit by recruiting services. Scholarships to play college football have been extended to him by a variety of institutions, including Clemson, Georgia, LSU, Ohio State, and Texas, among others.
Wanogho missed the start of his freshman year of basketball at Auburn so that he could focus on recovering from a leg injury he had while playing basketball for his senior year at his previous high school.
Because of this, he had no choice but to put on a red shirt. He began his career as a member of the offensive line, but in 2016, he swapped positions and played as a backup for ten different games.
He took over as the starting left tackle in 2017, and he proceeded to retain that position all the way through his senior season in 2019, starting a total of 32 games throughout his time with the team during his time as a starter.
After signing a contract with the Kansas City Chiefs on January 16, 2021, Wanogho was invited to participate in the team’s practice squad.
After being cut from the active roster on August 31, 2021, he was re-signed to the practice squad the very next day.
On January 26, 2021, he signed a contract with the Chiefs, at which point he was already a member of the team’s reserves and futures roster.
Where Is Prince Tega Wanogho Born?
Delta State, a state in Nigeria’s south-south geopolitical zone, is where Prince Tega Wanogho was born. named after the Niger Delta, a significant portion of which is located in the state