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Pro Bowl To Broadway, This NFL Star Says The Stage Is Another 'Team Sport'

Nnamdi Asomugha, a four-time All-Pro NFL cornerback, is making his Broadway debut in A Soldier's Play. It's been "a pretty surreal journey," he says.
"I'm a student first in everything that I do," says Nnamdi Asomugha. "So it's always about: How can I get the edge mentally?" Asomugha, shown above on the sidelines of an Oakland Raiders game in November 2010, is now making his Broadway debut.

There aren't many people who can say they started the decade at the Pro Bowl and ended it on Broadway — but Nnamdi Asomugha can. The four-time All-Pro NFL cornerback is making his Broadway debut in a revival of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, A Soldier's Play.

It's been "a pretty surreal journey," Asomugha says.

Asomugha grew up in Los Angeles,

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