Fifth-round pick looks forward to London game

Eluemunor played soccer, rugby as kid in England

left England when he was 14 years old for one reason. After playing soccer and rugby growing up, he wanted to play American football.

After playing the sport at a high school in New Jersey and then at a junior college in Pennsylvania, Eluemunor got a football scholarship at Texas A&M. He started only one season, but the Ravens saw a big and talented lineman with an NFL future.

They selected him in the fifth round with the 159th overall pick, capping quite a football journey for Eluemunor, who is 6 feet 4 and 330 pounds.

“I was telling everybody that the Ravens were one of the top ones I was thinking about of spots I could land,” Eluemunor said. “I saw they drafted an offensive lineman in the fourth round, so I kind of lost hope. Then, they came back again and got me. I just needed one opportunity, and they gave me the opportunity, so I am ready to go.”

Eluemunor made a pre-draft visit to the Ravens and said that he hit it off with their new offensive line coach,

The Ravens plan to develop him as a right tackle, but Eluemunor also played guard for the Aggies.

Not long after getting drafted, Eluemunor pondered what it will be like to return home as a member of an NFL team. The Ravens play the Jacksonville Jaguars at London’s Wembley Stadium in Week 3 of the regular season.

“It is going to be a dream come true,” he said. “I am ready. I told and coach that I’m ready to go. … They need a right tackle, and I play right tackle, so it is a perfect fit for me. I am ready to get in there and get to work and take that spot.” Mosley’s option picked up: Newsome confirmed after the draft that the team has picked up fifth-year option, meaning the two-time Pro Bowl linebacker is under contractual control with the team through 2018.

Mosley’s option is projected to be worth $8.7 million in 2018. Clarification on Conley: It was reported by several outlets on Thursday night that the Ravens requested Ohio State cornerback take a polygraph test just hours before the start of the first round. Conley, one of the top cornerbacks in the draft and a player the Ravens had done considerable homework on, was accused by a woman of rape stemming from an alleged meeting in a Cleveland hotel.

“What I would say is a representative of the Ravens suggested to a representative of Conley, ‘Had they considered having a polygraph test?’ ” Newsome said. “That was the extent of it.”

Conley did take the test, according to reports, and the results were provided to NFL teams.