:Cie Grant

{{Short description|American football player (born 1979)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| image =

| number = 58

| position = Linebacker

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|11|27}}

| birth_place = Dover, Ohio, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lbs = 235

| high_school = New Philadelphia (OH)

| college = Ohio State

| draftyear = 2003

| draftround = 3

| draftpick = 22

| pastteams =

• New Orleans Saints ({{NFL Year|2003|2004}});({{NFL Year|2005}})*;({{NFL Year|2006}})*

| highlights =

• BCS national champion (2002)
• Second-team All-Big Ten (2002)

| statlabel1 = Tackles

| statvalue1 = 3

| pfr = GranCi20

}}

Willie "Cie" Grant (born November 27, 1979) is an American former professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints.{{cite web|title=Players: Cie Grant|publisher=National Football League|url=http://www.nfl.com/players/ciegrant/profile?id=GRA520257|accessdate=2010-12-15}}{{cite news|last=Doerschuk|first=Steve|title=Around the NFL: Fox has a lot of respect for Browns' new hire, Sandusky|work=The Repository|date=2010-01-23|url=http://www.cantonrep.com/browns/x1643198507/Around-the-NFL-Fox-has-a-lot-of-respect-for-Browns-new-hire-Sandusky|accessdate=2010-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128203455/http://www.cantonrep.com/browns/x1643198507/Around-the-NFL-Fox-has-a-lot-of-respect-for-Browns-new-hire-Sandusky|archive-date=2010-01-28|url-status=dead}} He was drafted in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft.{{Cite web |title=2003 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2003/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} He played college football at Ohio State University. During the final fourth down play in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, a blitzing Grant applied quick pressure on Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey, forcing an incompletion and clinching the BCS National Championship.{{cite news|last=Lesmerises|first=Doug|title=Ohio State Buckeyes bury Miami Hurricanes and some doubts with convincing win|work=The Plain Dealer|date=2010-09-11|url=http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/09/ohio_state_buckeyes_bury_miami.html|accessdate=2010-12-15}}{{cite journal|last=Murphy|first=Austin|title='The Best Damn Team' Wins the Big One|journal=Sports Illustrated|date=2003-01-13|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2003/01/10/flashback_2003fiesta/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030115111331/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2003/01/10/flashback_2003fiesta/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 15, 2003|accessdate=2010-12-15}} 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.{{citation needed|date=December 2010}}

{{NFL predraft

| height ft = 6

| height in = 0 3/8

| weight = 228

| arm span = 31 3/8

| hand span = 9 1/2

| note = All values from NFL Combine{{Cite web |url=https://draftscout.com/dsprofile.php?PlayerId=693&DraftYear=2003 |title=Cie Grant College Football Profile |website=DraftScout.com |access-date=April 25, 2025}}

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