The Nordic Storm have announced the signing of Swedish defensive lineman Benjamin Banks Egbudiwe for the 2025 European League of Football season
The 6-4, 260 pound, 32-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden spent the 2024 season with the Helvetic Mercenaries in the ELF and in 2023 he was a member of the Barcelona Dragons recording 18 tackles including four tackles for loss. Prior to arriving in the ELF, he spent three seasons playing for the Helsinki Wolverines helping them reach the Maple Bowl in 2020. In the past two seasons, Egbudiwe racked up 64 tackles, 18.5 tackles for a loss and 11 sacks in the Finnish Maple League.
In 2020, he finished the seven game season including playoffs and championship with eight solo tackles, 23 assisted tackles and3.5 sacks. As soon as the season ended, he signed with the Stockholm Mean Machines in the Swedish Superserien league for the final two regular season games, one playoff game and then the Swedish Championship Game. He recorded one solo tackle, nine assisted and 0.5 sacks. Egbudiwe also played with Helsinki during the 2019 season in Finland recording 42.5 tackles, 12.0-53 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks and one fumble recovery.
In 2017, Egbudiwe also split the season, first playing six games with the Uppsala 86ers recording 13.5 tackles. He then signed in Finland with the Seinäjoki Crocodiles for the last six games of the Maple League season recording 26.5 tackles and 2 sacks.
He has been the starting defensive end for the Swedish National Team since the 2019 IFAF European Championships. Most recently he played for Sweden in the 2024/2025 IFAF Men’s European Championship tournament.
Egbudiwe played college football in the United States, first with City College of San Francisco and then with the Benedictine College Ravens (NAIA) in Atchison, Kansas.