Larry Ogunjobi

Experience: 8 years

Height: 6-3

Age: 30

Weight: 305 lbs

College: Charlotte

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YEAR	TEAM	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK	PDEF	INT	TDS	YDS	AVG	LNG
2024	Pittsburgh Steelers	15	39	14	25	1.5	0
2023	Pittsburgh Steelers	17	36	14	22	3	2
2022	Pittsburgh Steelers	16	43	20	23	1.5	0
2021	Cincinnati Bengals	16	43	23	20	7	0
2020	Cleveland Browns	15	45	22	23	2.5	0
2019	Cleveland Browns	15	47	32	15	5.5	1
2018	Cleveland Browns	16	50	31	19	5.5	0
2017	Cleveland Browns	14	30	15	15	1	0
TOTAL		124	333	171	162	27.5	3	0	0	0	0	0

YEAR	TEAM	G	FUM	LOST	FF	OWN FR	OPP FR	TD
2024	Pittsburgh Steelers	15			0
2023	Pittsburgh Steelers	17	0	0	1		2	0
2022	Pittsburgh Steelers	16			0
2021	Cincinnati Bengals	16			0
2020	Cleveland Browns	15			1
2019	Cleveland Browns	15			0
2018	Cleveland Browns	16			1
2017	Cleveland Browns	14			0
TOTAL		124	0	0	3	0	2	0

Biography

PRO CAREER

Has played in 109 games (96 starts) over his seven-year NFL career (Cleveland, 2017-20; Cinicinnati, 2021; Pittsburgh, 2022-23)
Has registered 320 tackles (183 solo), 72 quarterback hits, 51 tackles for loss, 26.0 sacks, three passes defensed, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries
Has started at least 15 regular-season games in each of the last six seasons
Made NFL debut in Week 1 of 2017 (vs. Pittsburgh)
Made NFL starting debut in Week 14 of 2017 (vs. Green Bay)
A familiar face after spending his first five NFL seasons with the Browns (2017-20) and Bengals (2021),
Ogunjobi joined Pittsburgh in June of 2022 as a free agent

PRO CAREER

Has played in 109 games (96 starts) over his seven-year NFL career (Cleveland, 2017-20; Cinicinnati, 2021; Pittsburgh, 2022-23)
Has registered 320 tackles (183 solo), 72 quarterback hits, 51 tackles for loss, 26.0 sacks, three passes defensed, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries
Has started at least 15 regular-season games in each of the last six seasons
Made NFL debut in Week 1 of 2017 (vs. Pittsburgh)
Made NFL starting debut in Week 14 of 2017 (vs. Green Bay)
A familiar face after spending his first five NFL seasons with the Browns (2017-20) and Bengals (2021),
Ogunjobi joined Pittsburgh in June of 2022 as a free agent

2023 (STEELERS)

Started all 17 regular-season games
Registered 43 tackles (21 solo), eight quarterback hits, three tackles for loss, two passes defensed, two fumble recoveries, one forced fumble and 3.0 sacks
Recorded sacks in Week 2 vs. Cleveland, Week 7 at L.A. Rams and Week 15 at Indianapolis
Had four tackles (three solo), 1.0 sack, one tackle for loss, two quarterback hits and one fumble recovery in Week 2 vs. Cleveland
Registered a season-high tying five tackles (three solo) in Week 8 vs. Jacksonville and Week 9 vs. Tennessee

2022 (STEELERS)

Played in 15 games (three starts)
Recorded 20 tackles (16 solo), two tackles for loss and three tackles on special teams
Registered seven tackles and two tackles for loss in Week 4 vs. New York Jets, tying his career highs in both categories
Had two games with five solo tackles (Week 4 vs. New York Jets, Week 6 vs. Tampa Bay)

2021 (STEELERS)

Played in 17 games (three starts)
Was one of five rookie starters, marking the first time the Steelers started at least five rookies in a season opener since 1991
Registered a career-high two passes defensed in Week 10 vs Detroit
Registered a career-high seven tackles in Week 11 at L.A. Chargers
Recorded his first career interception vs. Cleveland in Week 17
Recorded two passes defended in the postseason at Kansas City

2021 (BENGALS)

Played and started 16 regular-season games for Cincinnati, and totaled 49 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, 7.0 sacks and 16 quarterback hits
Registered sacks against Minnesota (Week 1), N.Y. Jets (Week 8), L.A. Chargers (Week 13) and San Francisco (Week 14)
Recorded multi-sack games (1.5) against Baltimore (Week 7) and Denver (Week 15)
Started one of Cincinnati's playoff games (Wild Card)
Had a fumble recovery after Trey Hendrickson's strip-sack of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr to set up a field goal during the Bengals' playoff win against Las Vegas
Missed the remainder of the playoffs with a foot injury

2020 (BROWNS)

Played and started 15 regular-season games for Cleveland, and totaled 46 tackles, 2.5 sacks and a forced fumble
Recorded only full sack of the season on Dec. 6 at Tennessee, with a seven-yard takedown of Ryan Tannehill in the third quarter
Started both of Cleveland's playoff games, and totaled four tackles

2019 (BROWNS)

2018 (BROWNS)

Started all 16 regular-season games for Cleveland
Posted 5.5 sacks and a forced fumble
Recorded first-career multi-sack game on Sept. 18 at New Orleans, with two third-down takedowns of Drew Brees

2017 (BROWNS)

Played in 14 regular-season games (one start) as a rookie for Cleveland
Inactive for two games (groin)
Registered 32 tackles and 1.0 sack
Made NFL debut in season-opener vs. Pittsburgh, and recorded four tackles
Notched first career sack on Dec. 24 at Chicago, taking down Mitch Trubisky for a seven-yard loss

COLLEGE

Spent five seasons (2012-16) at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, with a redshirt year in '12
Was part of Charlotte's first-ever recruiting class; the 49ers did not have a football season during his redshirt year in 2012, as the program's inaugural football season was in '13
First player ever drafted into the NFL from Charlotte's football program
Finished college career with 217 tackles, including 49 for loss, and 13.0 sacks

PERSONAL

Hometown is Greensboro, N.C.
Attended Ragsdale H.S. in Jamestown, N.C.
Has gained notoriety for how he got into football — he says he started playing as a 350-pound sophomore in high school because his mother took away his X-box, and then went on to lose roughly 100 pounds before his junior season and eventually earned multiple scholarship offers
His parents, Larry and Mercy Ogunjobi, immigrated to the United States from Nigeria
Taught himself to play the piano
Double-major at Charlotte — computer science and biology
Last name is pronounced "O-gunn-JO-bee

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