Orimolade returned to the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders in January after two seasons with the Toronto Argonauts. The defensive lineman finished his Big Green career second among all-time sack leaders and signed as an undrafted free agent with the Los Angeles Rams in 2017. He signed with Calgary the following year, then played for the Argonauts before heading back to Calgary. “My uncle lives in Calgary, so I guess it was meant to be,” he says. 

“ ‘Flo’ is a premier pass-rusher,” Stampeders GM and head coach Dave Dickenson told The Calgary Herald, which called it a big deal for the team to get “the sack-master back to terrorize quarterbacks.”

It was not until the end of Orimolade’s visit to Dartmouth as a high school student that then-head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 made the 5-foot-11 linebacker from Maryland an offer. Orimolade, who began playing football in 10th grade, accepted on the spot. “Teevens had a way of just knowing,” says the economics major, who was the 2016 Ivy League defensive player of the year. “It wasn’t until my junior year that I was like, ‘Maybe I could actually play professionally.’ ”