Rien Long
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| Rien Long | |
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| Date of birth: | August 7, 1981 |
| Place of birth: |  Los Angeles, CA |
| Career information | |
| Position(s): | Defensive tackle |
| College: | Washington State |
| NFL Draft: | 2003 / Round: 4/ Pick 126 |
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| 2003-2007 | Tennessee Titans |
| Career highlights and Awards | |
| Awards: | 2002 Outland Trophy |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
Rien Vartan Long (born August 7, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) was a American football defensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans in the NFL. He is one fourth Armenian descent and cherishes his heritage greatly. He has a tattoo of the seventh letter of the Armenian alphabet (Է) over the Armenian flag on his biceps. While playing for Washington State University in 2002, he won the Outland Trophy as that year's best college football interior lineman. He is the brother of Devan Long. Rien Long's trip to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in March 2006 to visit his roots, was the subject of a feature-length documentary, "The Long Journey from the NFL to Armenia" (www.globalistfilms.com).
[edit] Life-threatening car crash
Just before midnight on January 21, 2008, Long crashed his 2005 Ford Mustang into a rockwall while driving too fast on an I-40 on-ramp near downtown Nashville. Long was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he was in critical condition.[1] On January 23, doctors upgraded Long's condition from critical to stable.[2]
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| Preceded by Bryant McKinnie |
Outland Trophy Winners 2002 |
Succeeded by Robert Gallery |
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