The NFL is full of fun nicknames, both current and past. Chops Robinson will get another great nickname this weekend when he is selected in the 2024 NFL Draft. Although his real name is DeMaune Robinson, the Penn State pass rusher has lived by a variation of “Porkchop” his entire life.
To find out where his nickname came from, we have to go back a long way. When Robinson was born in 2003, he was so large that his (heroic) mother gave him the nickname “Porkchop,” which was later shortened to one word. became.
“I weighed 14 pounds when I was born, and my mom gave me that nickname,” Robinson said at the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine. “Then, as I got older, I started losing weight. I wasn’t big enough to have people calling me ‘Porkchop’ anymore, so I just stuck with ‘Chop.’ ”
Like most of us when we hear our full names, Robinson only hears “demay own” when he’s in trouble. I’m sure professional athletes are just like us.
At home, he is not called “Chop” or “Demayun,” but by a different nickname from the time he was born.
“My name is well known, but it’s actually ‘Plump,'” Robinson said. “So I basically have two nicknames, but my nickname is ‘Plump.’ No one knows that. ”
Everyone knows it now.
Personally, I don’t think you could call this man “chubby” to his face anyway. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 254 pounds and ran a 4.48 40-yard dash at the combine. Robinson will likely be selected late in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft on Thursday night.
