Jesse Luketa

[2] He was raised in a single parent household by his mother, who immigrated to Canada from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[4] Luketa was rated a four-star recruit and committed to play college football at Penn State from over 40 scholarship offers.

[8] Luketa played both linebacker and defensive end as a senior, and was named to the third-team All-Big Ten Conference.

Luketa, with cottonballs and slurred speech after surgery, sent a photo and voice memo to Watt requesting a signed jersey at the end of the season; both later joked about in the press.

[19][20] In Week 5 of the 2024 NFL season, Luketa recorded the first forced fumble of his career in a win against the San Francisco 49ers as the Cardinals won 24–23.