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The 2017 National Signing Day All-Name Team is headlined by Kobe Buffalomeat

Nick Bromberg
·College football and motorsports writer

Kobe Buffalomeat became quite famous on National Signing Day.

The Lawrence, Kansas, offensive lineman committed to FCS Illinois State on Wednesday. Not long after the team tweeted out his commitment, Buffalomeat’s awesome name even got him noticed by the sketch comedy show Key and Peele.

Buffalomeat took all the attention about his name in stride and even retweeted a tweet from DiGiorno Pizza.

His father explained his son’s name to the Chicago Tribune.

Ray Buffalomeat said his son, named after Kobe Bryant, is roughly one-quarter Cheyenne/Arapaho, one-quarter Cherokee, one-quarter Choctaw and one-quarter white.

While Buffalomeat leads our 2017 National Signing Day All-Name team, he’s got some pretty good name teammates. Below are our picks for the best names among the signees in the class of 2017.

FIRST TEAM
• WR Ty Fryfogle, Indiana – Fryfogle is one of three Indiana players who made our first and second teams. Indiana likes unique names.
• DT Royal Silver, Minnesota
• OT Ye’Majesty Sanders, Jacksonville State – If only he signed to the same team as Royal Silver.
• CB Cheyenne Labruzza, Tennessee – Labruzza doesn’t need a stage name if he decides to be a pro wrestler.
• S Phazion McClurge, Cornell
• WR Mac Hippenhammer, Penn State – How many MC Hammer jokes has he heard?
• WR Tyre Brady, Miami
• LB Wrangler Haresnape, West Texas A&M – What a perfect West Texas A&M name.
• OT Onesimus Lutu-Clarke, Oregon State
• OT Broc Bando, Nebraska – A great offensive lineman’s name.
• WR Shon’Derious Spralling, Troy

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SECOND TEAM
• S D’Najee Whosendove, Georgia Southern
• WR Charleston Rambo, Oklahoma
• DE Britt Beery, Indiana
• TE Tabyous Casterberry, undecided
• RB Xazavian Vallada, Wyoming
• LB Trevor Brohard, New Mexico State
• WR Kevaughn Dingle, South Florida
• TE Peyton Hendershot, Indiana
• CB Ameer Speed, Georgia
• Ath Russ Yeast, Louisville
• S Michael Tutsie, North Dakota State

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