Former Michigan football star linebacker Obi Ezeh is dead at only 36, according to his mother, who announced the passing on social media on Sunday.
“My very own! My Obi. My #2. My heart. My father’s heart. My quiet giant!” his mother, Nkechy, posted on Facebook. “Grand child of an elephant. Journey well to your maker oo. Mother Mary please hold his hands for me. St. Peter open the gate for him as the celestial choirs marshal him in to Jesus,” the player’s mother, Nkechy Ekere Ezeh, wrote on Facebook.
“My Obinna Ezeh, you will always be in my heart my beloved son.”
The 6-foot-4, 244-pound Ezeh played in 50 games for the University of Michigan from 2006 to 2010, according to the Detroit Free Press.
In 2007, he became a freshman All-American and earned an All-Big Ten honorable mention in 2008.
Ezeh ended his college career with 293 tackles, three sacks, three…
