Rookie Cut From Ravens Dies in Washington

Tony Fein, an Iraq war veteran and NFL rookie linebacker who played with the Baltimore Ravens during the preseason, has died of unexplained causes after collapsing at a friend’s house in what his agent said appears to be “an accidental situation.” Fein, 27, an undrafted rookie free agent from Mississippi, was lying face down and lifeless, vomiting and barely breathing when the med teams arrived at a house outside Port Orchard on the Kitsap Peninsula just before 9 a.m PDT Tuesday, Mike Wernet said, a battalion chief and medical officer with South Kitsap Fire & Rescue.

The medics put a breathing tube down Fein’s throat after he stopped breathing and administered medication, but he went into cardiac arrest during the drive to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, across Puget Sound from Seattle, and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 9:48 a.m. PDT Tuesday. A man and woman who were there described Fein as a friend who was living with them. They told the aid crew they woke up and found him indifferent and vomiting.