“Doing interviews after a game, you can't give your true emotions. You can't tap into them. So when you do that for so long, you go into acting and it can be difficult to suddenly just be open and vulnerable.”

Nigerian-American actor and former NFL cornerback

Nnamdi Asomugha is a Nigerian-American actor, director, producer, and former professional football cornerback. He played 11 seasons in the NFL, after college football at UC Berkeley, and was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the 2003 NFL draft. Asomugha spent his professional career with the Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, and San Francisco 49ers. He was widely regarded as a shutdown cornerback, earned four All-Pro selections, including two first-team honors, and was named to Fox Sports’s NFL All-Decade Team for the 2000s and USA Today’s NFL All-Decade Team for the same decade.