Not only is Nnamdi Asomugha the best cornerback in all the land, he's got to be one of the smartest as well. Raider fans, I hope you realize how lucky you are to have a person like him suiting up for the Silver and Black and that's not just because he shuts down one side of the field every single game. 

After talking to the Cal Berkley product in an interview about training camp and the upcoming season, I realized that playing the game of football comes way too easy to this intellectual. Every response he has to a question is ridiculously exquisite and I automatically felt inferior to his intelligence when we were talking about the game he plays. Simply put, the man is blessed.  

After I had the chance to dissect some of his cornerbacking skills, I overheard another reporter talking to #21 and discussing something other than football. Nnamdi kept referring to some sort of conference he recently attended where he had the opportunity to sit down with Bill Clinton and discuss some concerning issues in the world. I was taken aback and immediately made a note in my head to make sure to do some research on the Raider when I had the chance. Here's some information I found. Basically the guy is a philanthropic genious as well as a phenomenal football player.

-Nnamdi serves as the Advisory Board Chair for his family's foundation, the Orphans and Widows in Need (OWIN) Foundation. This organization provides food, shelter, medicine, vocational training, literacy efforts, and scholarships to widows and orphans victimized by poverty or abuse in his home land of Nigeria. OWIN has two centers in Nigeria and plans to expand throughout Africa. For those who don't know, Asomugha is of Igbo descent, an ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria. 

-In 2006, Asomugha launched an annual high school college tour program that teams up with the East Oakland Youth Development Center to help take students from Bay Area high schools on college tours throughout the United States. All the participants who graduate high school have gone on to attend higher education institutions. 

*Here's what he was referring to when he was talking to the other reporter*

-Nnamdi joined former President Bill Clinton at the 2009 Meeting of Clinton Global Initiative University in Austin, TX, to discuss the importance of student activism and global service. CGIU is Clinton's youth initiative created to challenge college students to tackle some of the most pressing global issues. At this specific meeting, Nnamdi talked to over 1,200 student leaders, university presidents and leaders of the national youth organizations about his philanthropic efforts in Nigeria and Oakland, CA.

-Additionally, Asomugha distributes backpacks to the incoming freshmen each year at Narbonne High School in Los Angeles and he outfits the football and basketball team with shoes, a mandate HE wrote into an endorsement contract he signed with Nike. 

All that was courtesy of wikipedia.org and it's honestly just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to read more about his achievements outside of football just google him, pretty much he's a legit baller who lives a ridiculously cool life. Raider Nation, be glad he's playing for Al Davis and not pushing Barack Obama for President of the United States. Actually, I'm going to call it right here right now, Nnamdi Asomugha in 2020. Bam! I'm out.