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Oday Aboushi

Oday Aboushi is a Palestinian American professional football player. 

He was born on June 5th, 1991, in Brooklyn, New York, and he is of Palestinian descent. Oday has played as an offensive lineman in the NFL for seven seasons, joining the New York Jets, the Houston Texans, the Seattle Seahawks, the Oakland Raiders, the Arizona Cardinals, the Detroit Lions, and most recently, the Los Angeles Chargers throughout his career. 

Before his rise to fame, Oday attended the University of Virginia, where he received an education and played for their premier football team, the Virginia Cavaliers.

Oday is among the few Palenstinian-Americans as well as Muslim-praticing atheltes to have ever played in the NFL, and has been vocal about maintaining his religion and culture alongside his career. 

 

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