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Somewhere along the way, we lost the plot when it comes to sports nicknames. In yesteryear, we had monikers like Oil Can Boyd, Too Tall Jones and Human Rain Delay Mike Hargrove. However, in more recent generations nicknames were just replaced by abbreviations and initials- D. Will, I-Rod, A-Rod, KD etc. Ah, we used to be a proper country with proper sports nicknames!
Well, the 115th overall pick in the NFL Draft, Elijah "Waffle House" Sarratt, is starting to bring it back. The Baltimore Ravens took Waffle House, a big, productive wide receiver, in the fourth round out of Indiana on Saturday. If you're wondering how Sarratt earned this very distinctive nickname, it goes back to his James Madison days. Waffle House was one of the many players who moved with coach Curt Cignetti from JMU to IU.
And the credit for the moniker apparently belongs to his father, Donnie.
“He’s open right now,” Donnie Sarratt once said during an interview with the Big Ten Network's The Journey, according to the Daily Hoosier. Because Sarratt, like Waffle House, is always open.
There is actually a more scientific component to this too. The Waffle House Index is an informal but still helpful metric for determining the severity of a storm, and what level of disaster recovery efforts might be required after is subsides.
The scale is as follows:
There are currently no Waffle Houses within the city limits of Baltimore, but there are a few locations in the northern suburbs. Sarratt is a back-shoulder-catch specialist with extraordinary ball skills and physicality. He's exactly the type of receiver that Baltimore needs right now, as they continue the offseason overhaul of their offense.
He may not be a true over the top, deep ball, home run threat kind of receiver, but he really excels in the slot. He was a big reason why IU won a national title, and became the first college football team to go 16-0 since Yale in 1894. Sarratt led the nation in TD receptions (15) in 2025. He had 44 touchdown grabs over the course of his college career.
This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: Who nicknamed Elijah Sarratt "Waffle House," when and why
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Well, the 115th overall pick in the NFL Draft, Elijah "Waffle House" Sarratt, is starting to bring it back. The Baltimore Ravens took Waffle House, a big, productive wide receiver, in the fourth round out of Indiana on Saturday. If you're wondering how Sarratt earned this very distinctive nickname, it goes back to his James Madison days. Waffle House was one of the many players who moved with coach Curt Cignetti from JMU to IU.
And the credit for the moniker apparently belongs to his father, Donnie.
“He’s open right now,” Donnie Sarratt once said during an interview with the Big Ten Network's The Journey, according to the Daily Hoosier. Because Sarratt, like Waffle House, is always open.
There is actually a more scientific component to this too. The Waffle House Index is an informal but still helpful metric for determining the severity of a storm, and what level of disaster recovery efforts might be required after is subsides.
The scale is as follows:
There are currently no Waffle Houses within the city limits of Baltimore, but there are a few locations in the northern suburbs. Sarratt is a back-shoulder-catch specialist with extraordinary ball skills and physicality. He's exactly the type of receiver that Baltimore needs right now, as they continue the offseason overhaul of their offense.
He may not be a true over the top, deep ball, home run threat kind of receiver, but he really excels in the slot. He was a big reason why IU won a national title, and became the first college football team to go 16-0 since Yale in 1894. Sarratt led the nation in TD receptions (15) in 2025. He had 44 touchdown grabs over the course of his college career.
This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: Who nicknamed Elijah Sarratt "Waffle House," when and why
Continue reading...
