Mile High Report · May 5, 2022
Uwazurike ready to put pass-rushing skills to work
Photo by David Purdy/Getty Images“En-yo-mah Oo-waz-uh-ree-kay” knows his name is hard to pronounce - or at least without seeing the phonetic spelling.
That’s why he has a simple solution - an easy nickname.
But “E-N-Y-I” is not pronounced how you would think.
It’s even simpler, says the new defensive lineman from Iowa State.
“‘Enyi’. Like E-N-Y-I, but it’s pronounced ‘innie’ like a belly button,” Uwazurike notes.
The former cyclone will be coming into a solid but lacking-depth defensive line, and he couldn’t have asked for a better situation.
