<p>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills agreed to terms Wednesday with Nigerian-born defensive end Efe Obada on a one-year contract.</p>
<p>The 28-year-old joins the Bills after spending his first three NFL seasons with the Carolina Panthers. He is listed at 6-foot-6 and 265 pounds and is coming off a year in which he had a career-best 5 1/2 sacks in 16 games, including one start.</p>
<p>Overall, Obada has 7 1/2 sacks in 42 games with the Panthers.</p>
<p>Obada overcame a challenging upbringing and no formal football background to become the first NFL player to make a 53-man roster out of the league’s International Player Pathway Program.</p>
<p>Born in Nigeria, Obada moved to the Netherlands before relocating to England, where he was brought up in foster care. He worked as a part-time security guard and took up football playing for the London Warriors of the British American Football Association as a defensive end and tight end.</p>
<p>He had brief stints with Dallas, Kansas City and Atlanta before entering the the pathway program and being assigned to the Panthers in 2017.</p>
<p>In Buffalo, he’ll have the opportunity to compete for a backup spot after the Bills didn’t re-sign Trent Murphy.</p>
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