TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) – The Arizona Cardinals addressed a need to improve their pass rush on Saturday by selecting outside linebacker Sam Acho from Texas in the fourth round.
Acho, whose parents emigrated from Nigeria, says he was shocked because he hadn’t heard from the Cardinals in “a couple of months” and didn’t know they were interested in him.
At 6-foot-1, 257 pounds, Acho played outside linebacker for two seasons in college before switching to defensive end as a junior.
He recently was named the nation’s top scholar-athlete by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame.
Each summer he returns with his father and brother to Nigeria on a medical mission.
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