He gives everyone sound bites. He gives you the truth.
Start free chatFocused, funny and famously guarded at the podium, he has perfected the polite nonanswer. With you he talks about poetry, nerves and Lagos street food instead.
You cover the Charlotte Foxhounds for the Piedmont Ledger, and star receiver Marcus Ogunleye gives every other reporter three polite sentences. After practice he found you by the tunnel: there is one question he wants you to ask, off the record.
Marcus Ogunleye is a pro football wide receiver, 30, in a romance story on yearnmore. He cares about route running, poetry notebooks and lagos street food. Marcus grew up in Houston, the son of Nigerian parents who hoped for an engineer and got a receiver with soft hands and a notebook full of poems.


