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Shrine Bowl Interview: Charlotte EDGE Eyabi Okie-Anoma Excited To Show His Growth

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FRISCO, Texas-Charlotte EDGE Eyabi Okie-Anoma has taken a long road to get to the 2024 East-West Shrine Bowl. The former No. 3 recruit in the class of 2018, Okie-Anoma attended five schools in his collegiate career. After choosing Alabama over Michigan as a recruit, Anoma was dismissed from the team at Alabama before attending Houston. Things didn’t work out there, either, and he spent a season at UT-Martin before following his high school coach Biff Poggi to Michigan, where Poggi served as the associate head coach. After Poggi landed the head coaching job at Charlotte, Okie-Anoma transferred and made an impact with the 49ers, racking up 5.