(Reuters) – The Buffalo Bills have signed Olympic champion wrestler Gable Steveson as an undrafted free agent defensive tackle, the National Football League (NFL) team said on Friday. Steveson won gold in men’s freestyle super heavyweight wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 when he scored on a spin-behind takedown with 10 seconds remaining and […]
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(Reuters) – The Buffalo Bills have signed Olympic champion wrestler Gable Steveson as an undrafted free agent defensive tackle, the National Football League (NFL) team said on Friday.
Steveson won gold in men’s freestyle super heavyweight wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 when he scored on a spin-behind takedown with 10 seconds remaining and then another as time expired to win by one point.
The 24-year-old Steveson, a two-time heavyweight National Collegiate Athletic Association champion at the University of Minnesota, also wrestled professionally in WWE from 2021 before his release earlier this year.
The Bills won the AFC East Division title in the 2023 season and went on to lose to the eventual Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; editing by Clare Fallon)