Patrick Omameh Patrick Chuba Omameh , Jr . ( born December 29 , 1989 ) is an American football player for the San Francisco 49ers , who played his redshirt senior season in 2012 for the Michigan Wolverines football team . His parents , Phyllis and Patrick , Sr . , immigrated to Columbus from Nigeria in the early 1980s . During his college football career , he was an offensive lineman who mostly played guard . He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 2008 and redshirted his freshman season . He began his Michigan Wolverines football career as the lowest rated football player in the entering class of 2008 and finished it as a 2012 first team All - Big Ten selection . He was not only recognized for his role with the 2012 Michigan Wolverines , but also for his off - the - field contributions to his community as both a 2012 Pop Warner National College Football Award finalist and a 2012 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team member . He was also a three - time Academic All - Big Ten selection . High school . When Omameh was in sixth grade , he did not know what American football was and when he asked his father about it , his father brought out a soccer ball . On the first day of football practice , he wore sandals and a wristwatch . As a senior at St . Francis DeSales High School in Columbus , Ohio , Omameh was selected as a 2007 Division II All - Ohio first team offensive lineman and member of " The Columbus Dispatch " All - metro team . He was a straight - A student recruited by the likes of Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Omameh matriculated at Michigan as the lowest rated prospect in the 24 - man entering class of 2008 according to Rivals . com . He also earned three varsity letters in track & field and one in basketball . College . Omameh redshirted as a freshman for the 2008 Michigan Wolverines . He made his first career start on November 7 , 2009 when Perry Dorrestein was sidelined with a back injury against Purdue , and Omameh stayed in the starting lineup for the final two games of the season for the 2009 team . Despite being Michigan ' s lowest rated prospect in the entering class of 2008 , he went on to start for the team for three and a half seasons . By the end of the 2012 Michigan – Ohio State game , Omameh had started 40 consecutive games . Omameh has been known for eating prowess since high school , once eating 30 White Castle hamburgers . Even other offensive linemen , such as teammate Taylor Lewan , marveled at his appetite . This helped Omameh bulk up from about as a freshman to over two years later when he became a regular starting offensive lineman . At Michigan , he had difficulty understanding quarterback Denard Robinson ' s playcalling in the huddle because of Robinson ' s rapid speech pattern . In 2010 , Omameh was a nominee to be the University of Michigan homecoming king . Omameh was an Academic All - Big Ten in both 2010 and 2011 . On September 18 , 2012 , Omameh was named to the 11 - man Allstate American Football Coaches Association ( AFCA ) Good Works Team . His Good Works team recognition was for his weekly appearances at the C . S . Mott Children ' s Hospital . He joins Zoltan Mesko as the only two Michigan players to ever receive the AFCA Good Works Team recognition . On November 13 , Omameh was named a finalist for the 2012 Pop Warner National College Football Award . Omameh was a first team All - Big Ten selection by the coaches and an honorable mention selection by the media . He earned his third consecutive Academic All - Big Ten recognition in 2012 . Professional career . Omameh signed an undrafted free agent contract with the San Francisco 49ers following the 2013 NFL Draft . Personal . Omameh ' s parents , Phyllis and Patrick Sr . , moved to Columbus , Ohio from Nigeria in the early 1980s . His father is and his mother is .