Hakeem Adeniji

BIOGRAPHY

Hakeem Adeniji was born December 8, 1997 in Garland, Texas. He is an offensive lineman in the NFL.

Adeniji attended high school at Garland High School in Garland, Texas. He would go on to play his collegiate football at Kansas. As a freshman, Adeniji became a starter at tackle immediately, starting all twelve games. Throughout his college career, Adeniji showed durability, not missing a single game in his career due to injury. By the final game of his senior year, he had been on the roster for 48 games and started in all of them. In his junior and senior years, he helped pave the way for the running back to rush for over 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons. For his efforts, he was named 2nd team All-Big 12 as a junior and 1st team as a senior.

Adeniji was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals with the 180th overall selection in the sixth round of the 2020 NFL Draft.