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| Position | Quarterback |
| Personal information | |
| Born | June 27, 2001 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College |
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| High school | Wheeler (Marietta, Georgia) |
CJ Ogbonna (born June 27, 2001) is an American football quarterback. He previously played for the Hutchinson Blue Dragons, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks and the Buffalo Bulls.
Early life
[edit]Ogbonna was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but grew up in Marietta, Georgia where he attended Wheeler High School.[1] In his high school career, Ogbonna completed 180 of his 316 pass attempts for 2,770 yards and 32 touchdowns, to 6 interceptions. Additionally, Ogbonna would also go on to rush for 88 yards and 2 touchdowns.[2]
Out of high school, Ogbonna chose to play at the junior college (JUCO) level for Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas.[1]
College career
[edit]Hutchinson Community College
[edit]Ogbonna did not see any action in his freshman season in 2019. In the 2020-2021 season for Hutchinson, Ogbonna was the starting quarterback and played in 6 of the teams 8 games (missing two due to an injury.)[3] He completed 57 of 92 passing attempts while recording 736 passing yards, 8 touchdowns and 2 interceptions[4]. At the end of his sophomore season, Hutchinson was down 21-10 to Snow College in the NJCAA National Football Championship when Ogbonna entered the game with under 5 minutes in the 3rd quarter and Hutchinson won the game 29-27 with Ogbonna going 5-5 on passing attempts with 128 passing yards.[3] Ogbonna decided to transfer to Southeast Missouri State shortly after the season.
Southeast Missouri State
[edit]Ogbonna started all 11 games for the team in the 2021 season and completed 111 of his 220 passes for 1,521 passing yards and 12 passing touchdowns, to 8 interceptions. Ogbonna also ran for 357 yards including 3 rushing touchdowns.[5]
Ogbonna was named to the Ohio Valley Conference All-Newcomer Team in 2021.[5]
After the 2022 season, Ogbonna decided to enter the transfer portal, and on January 16, 2023, he committed to play for Buffalo.[6]
Buffalo
[edit]In Ogbonna's first season at Buffalo he sat behind Cole Snyder and was used as a change of pace quarterback with the threat of running. In the 2023 season, he recorded 214 rushing yards and 3 rushing touchdowns.[7] Ogbonna became the starting quarterback for the 2024 season and led Buffalo to a 9 win season with a bowl game win, making it Buffalo's second season above 8 wins since joining NCAA Division I football.[8] He finished the season with 190 completions on 336 attempts, 2,381 passing yards, 19 passing touchdowns, to 5 interceptions; while rushing for 343 yards on 123 attempts and scoring a career best 8 rushing touchdowns.[7]
After first announcing he would be transferring on January 8, 2025[9], just weeks later on January 27, 2025, Ogbonna announced that he would be declaring for the 2025 NFL draft.
College statistics
[edit]| Season | Games | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Record | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Avg | TD | Int | Rtg | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
| Hutchinson Blue Dragons (JUCO) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | |
| 2020-21 | 6 | 5 | 5−0 | 57 | 92 | 62.0 | 736 | 8.0 | 8 | 3 | 151.3 | 29 | 94 | 3.2 | 1 | |
| Southeast Missouri State Redhawks | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 11 | 11 | 4-7 | 111 | 220 | 50.5 | 1,521 | 6.9 | 12 | 8 | 119.3 | 94 | 357 | 3.8 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 7 | 0 | — | 2 | 9 | 22.2 | 6 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 27.8 | 16 | 52 | 3.3 | 0 | |
| Buffalo Bulls | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 8 | 0 | — | 8 | 21 | 38.1 | 87 | 4.1 | 1 | 2 | 69.6 | 51 | 214 | 4.2 | 3 | |
| 2024 | 13 | 13 | 9-4 | 190 | 336 | 56.5 | 2,381 | 7.1 | 19 | 5 | 131.8 | 123 | 343 | 2.8 | 8 | |
| NCAA Career[7] | 39 | 24 | 13-11 | 311 | 586 | 53.1 | 3,995 | 6.8 | 32 | 15 | 123.2 | 284 | 966 | 3.4 | 14 | |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "CJ Ogbonna, Wheeler". 247sports.com. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ "CJ Ogbonna' Wheeler High School Football Stats". MaxPreps.com. 21 October 2022. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ a b Watson, Billy (June 5, 2021). "Hutchinson Blue Dragons win first NJCAA national championship in comeback fashion over Snow College". hutchnews.com. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ "CJ Ogbonna Player Profile". bluedragonsports.com. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ a b "CJ Ogbonna Southeast Missouri State Bio". Retrieved January 19, 2025.
- ^ "Buffalo 2023 Football Commits". 247sports.com. Retrieved February 10, 2025.
- ^ a b c "C.J. Ogbonna Career Stats". espn.com. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
- ^ "Buffalo Bulls College Football History, Stats, Records". sports-reference.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
- ^ Acosta, Jonathan (8 January 2025). "CJ Ogbonna enters the transfer portal after UB football bowl victory". wgrz.com. Retrieved April 29, 2025.