“You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.”

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.