Okoye played for Houston for three more years, during which he only had 2.5 sacks over two years and three sacks in 2010, according to Sportscasting. He went to play for the Chicago Bears in 2011 and had better stats, bringing in four sacks in his first year and 12 tackles and a sack in 2012. Tragedy very nearly struck in 2013 when Okoye sat out the season for what was called an "undisclosed medical issue" but was later announced as anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
He spent several months in a medically-induced coma, and later told ESPN in an interview available on YouTube that he was "a walking miracle" as he had "pretty much died." He lost nearly 100 pounds, and had to relearn "everything." Okoye's health quickly improved via rehabilitation; a year later, he signed with the Dallas Cowboys and trained with the team, but never played a game and was released in 2015. His last professional football stint was with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League in 2016.
After that, he went on to devote himself to the Amobi Okoye Foundation, a nonprofit organization he started as a Texan that seeks to "tackle hunger, provide scholarships for poor urban kids, and organize Kickoff 4 Kids football camps," per Charity Navigator.
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