Tony Fein, an Iraq War veteran who was a member of the Ravens during the preseason, died Tuesday morning in Port Orchard, Wash., according to his agent.
There were no immediate details about his death, said the agent, Milton D. Hobbs.
"It's a very sad situation," Hobbs told The Baltimore Sun late Tuesday night. "I am still trying to figure out what happened."
Fein, 27, was an undrafted rookie free-agent linebacker who was released by the Ravens in their final major cutdown Sept. 5.
Although old for a rookie, Fein, at 6 feet 2, 245 pounds, caught the eyes of scouts at the University of Mississippi's Pro Day, where the school's football players audition for scouts before the NFL draft.
While with the Ravens, Fein was arrested Aug. 23 and charged with misdemeanor assault on a police officer stemming from an incident at an Inner Harbor restaurant.
Security officers notified police about a group of men passing around a large silver object suspected of being a firearm, but which turned out to be a cellular phone, police said.
When officers approached the group of men, who were seated at a counter, they demanded that Fein stand up, but he refused, according to a police report. When Fein stood up after being asked to do so for a second time, police said he shoved an officer in the chest and was immediately arrested.
Fein was not in possession of a handgun, according to police. The cellular phone that security spotted was large, square and metallic.
Before joining the Ravens, Fein served for a year in Iraq as a reconnaissance scout. He was also shot at and had to deal with roadside bombs, he said.
Fein was a native of Port Orchard, nine miles outside Seattle, and was working out there while awaiting another shot at playing football, his agent said.
