UCLA receiver Audie Omotosho announces he's transferring

UCLA receiver Audie Omotosho announces he’s transferring

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By Ben BolchStaff Writer

Jan. 18, 2019

4:10 PM

UCLA receiver Audie Omotosho, a redshirt sophomore who never played for the Bruins amid a series of injuries, announced Thursday on Twitter he will leave as a graduate transfer.

ESPN ranked Omotosho as a four-star prospect when he played for Plano (Texas) East High.

He was named to the athletic director’s academic honor roll three times.

Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.