Cie Grant
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Career information | |
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Position(s) | Linebacker |
US college | The Ohio State University |
NFL draft | 2003 / round: 3 / pick: 22 |
Willie "Cie" Grant (born November 27, 1979 in Dover, Ohio) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints and is currently a free agent. He played college football at The Ohio State University. Cie is most famous in the hearts of Ohio State Buckeyes fans for the final fourth down play in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl in which a blitzing Grant applied quick pressure on Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey, forcing an incompletion and clinching the BCS National Championship. He graduated from New Philadelphia High School in 1998. While at NPHS he participated in numerous sports as well as performing with Delphian Chorale, the high school's select choir.