Olympic gold medal wrestler Gable Steveson is seeking to trade the mat for the gridiron by signing a standard undrafted rookie free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills. The Bills list the 24-year-old Steveson as a defensive lineman in hopes his leverage techniques and agility can translate to football.
FILE - United State’s Gable Dan Steveson poses with his gold medal during the medal ceremony for the men’s freestyle 125kg wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Chiba, Japan, Aug. 6, 2021. Olympic gold medal wrestler Gable Steveson is trading the mat for the gridiron by signing contract with the Buffalo Bills on Friday, May 31, 2024. ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.
Listed at 5-foot-11 and 266 pounds, Steveson, at 21, became the youngest freestyle wrestler to win gold as a super heavyweight at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. He then went on to win two college national titles at Minnesota in 2021 and ’22, and twice was named the Dan Hodge Trophy winner as the nation’s best college wrestler.
In Buffalo, Steveson joins a team with a head coach in Sean McDermott who was a two-time high school national wrestling champion growing up in Pennsylvania. And while McDermott went on to pursue football after high school, he credits wrestling for helping shape his life.Sam Howell adjusting going from being a starter in Washington to likely backup in SeattleSteveson won gold at the Tokyo Games by scoring a dramatic last-second win against Geno Petriashvili.
After joining WWE, Steveson briefly returned to amateur wrestling last year. He competed at the U.S. Open and Final X and won both in dominant fashion. That qualified him for the world championships, but he chose not to compete.
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