For Japanese wide receiver Yoshihito Omi, international combine offers rare path to NFL

Yoshihito Omi grew up a diehard football fan.

But in Osaka, Japan, he was one of the few.

When he would watch NFL games on TV, or play catch with his father – a former college football player in Japan – Omi said he would think about what it would be like to play football in the U.S., against the sport's elite. But he didn't know how to get there.

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