Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whakaritea a Lawrence Okoye mo te taahiraa e whai ake nei i tana mahi NFL. Mai i tana whakawhiti i te kōpae ki te raina paruru, ka mea te kaiako a Jim Tomsula kua pai te urutau o te maunga 6ft 6in ki te hakinakina, engari ka anga whakamua ki te ako i tana tau tuatoru me te San Francisco 49ers. "He nui te whanaketanga. Engari kei te tākaro ia i tētahi tūranga kāore i rite ki ētahi atu mea i mahia e ia. Na he mea hou katoa nga mea katoa, a he uaua te whakawhitinga. ' 'I tēnei tau, ka uru ia ki roto ki ngā tāngata ka eke ki tētahi atu kapa. Kia kite tatou kei hea tatou,' i kii te kaiako matua a Tomsula i te hui a nga rangatira o te NFL. Kei te anga atu a Lawrence Okoye ki te whawhai kia uru ki te rārangi 53-tangata a e hiahia ana a Jim Tomsula ki te mohio ki tōna tūnga. I kōrero a Jim Tomsula mō te heke mai o Lawrence Okoye, ā, i kōrero mō ngā tūmanako NFL a Jarryd Hayne. Whai muri i tana hainatanga hei kaihoko koreutu i te tau 2013, ko te tau tuatahi o Okoye i te rohe o Bay i whara. I te tau kua hipa, i takaro ia ki ngā kaitākaro tuatoru me te tuawha i te wā o mua i mua i tana hainatanga ki te kapa whakangungu. Ahakoa ngā pūkenga o Tomsula hei kaiako rārangi ārai, e 23 tau te pakeke o Okoye, he kaitākaro o mua o te Olympics, e anga ana ki te whawhai kia eke ki te rārangi whakamutunga o te 49ers e 53 tangata na te hohonu o te tūnga. Ahakoa kaore he rite ki a Justin Smith me Ray McDonald, e whakaaro ana a Tomsula koinei te roopu tuunga pai rawa atu i a ia i roto i ona tau e waru ki te raihana. I korero ano a Tomsula mo te hoa NFL-convert Jarryd Hayne, i uru atu ki nga 49ers mai i te NRL o Ahitereiria hei kaihoko koreutu i te timatanga o tenei marama. E whakamahere ana te 49ers ki te whakamahi i a Hayne hei kaiwhaiwhai, engari kaore a Tomsula e whakakore i te whakamahi i a ia hei kaiwhiwhi, a ka korero ia mo tana koa ki te mahi tahi me te 27-tau-tau. 'He tangata ia e whakamahia ana ki te noho i raro i te papa ka hopu i te poi me te iwi e rere ana ki a ia,' i kii a Tomsula. 'Kei te whakamahia ia ki te hanga i ngā tūtohi i ngā wāhi tuwhera. Kei a koe he tangata e whakamahia ana ki te kawe i te pōro, te hopu i te pōro me te karo. E mārama ana, ki ngā āhuatanga pakaru e whai ana ia, e kore e taea e koe te āwhina engari ki te kia whakaongaonga.'
Ka uru atu a Okoye ki tana tau tuatoru ki te 49ers, ā, kua whakaritea kia whakamātauria ia ki ngā kaitākaro pai ake o te raina whakaeke. Kua takaro noa te kaiako matua a Tomsula i tana kaupapa ki te tuatoru me te tuawha o nga raina whakaeke i te mutunga o nga keemu o mua. Ka mea a Tomsula ki te kaipatu kōpae o mua, 'Kia kite tātou i te āhua o te mahi nei.' I kōrero hoki ia i runga i ngā kupu whakamiharo mō Jarryd Hayne, ā, i kite i ngā 'ngā āhuatanga pakaru' o te Ahitereiria