NFL rookie LB Fein died of unexplained causes in Washington

Tony Fein is an Iraq war veteran and undrafted rookie linebacker in NFL. He used to play with the Baltimore Ravens during the preseason but had to take off the ravens jersey in the team's last major round of roster cuts on Sept. 5. At age 27, the undrafted rookie free agent died Tuesday of unexplained causes at a friend’s house in Washington.




According to a battalion chief and medical officer with South Kitsap Fire & Rescue, Fein collapsed at a friend’s house. When medics arrived at a house outside Port Orchard on the Kitsap Peninsula just before 9 a.m PDT Tuesday, he was lying face down and unconscious, vomiting and barely breathing. He went into cardiac arrest during the drive to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, across Puget Sound from Seattle. At 9:48 a.m. PDT Tuesday, the young man was pronounced dead at the hospital.

A detective has been assigned to the case because the death seemed unusual-there were no obvious wounds or signs of alcohol or other drug abuse, and nothing indicated foul play. The man and woman who were staying with Fein did not give a lot of information about what happened the night before. And an autopsy will be conducted Thursday, and it would take six to eight weeks before all oxicology and other tests are complete.