Kansas offensive lineman Hakeem Adeniji couldn’t believe the words in front of him.
It was four months after he signed a letter-of-intent with Air Force football — and a few weeks before he was set to report to campus — when the school sent him an email saying his medical waiver had been denied. Adeniji was not eligible to attend the academy.
“My heart dropped a little bit,” Adeniji said. “It’s mid-June. I don’t have anywhere to go. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
The problem was something he’d discovered eight years earlier.
Back when he was 10 — when he ate a cashew for the first time — Adeniji’s throat started to swell, with his lips becoming itchy.