It’s a safe bet Mike Tomlin has spoken with Notre Dame linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah at least a little bit during this pre-draft process. And you can all but guarantee they were talking about life in Virginia.
As if you needed another reason to think Tomlin and the team would strongly consider Owusu-Koramoah should he make it to pick #24, JOK hails from Hampton, Virginia. If that sounds familiar, it should. That is 757 area code territory, the same town Mike Tomlin was born in. Tomlin attended high school in Newport News, just 14 minutes away. Owusu-Koramoah attended a different high school, Bethel High, but it’s all in the same region.