Mario Branch

{{Short description|American football player (1979–2011)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Mario Branch

| image =

| caption =

| number =

| position = Offensive tackle

| birth_date = {{birth date|1979|8|13}}

| birth_place = Greenwood, Mississippi

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|04|08|1979|8|13}}

| death_place = Nashville, Tennessee

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 7

| weight_lbs = 340

| high_school = Greenwood
(Greenwood, Mississippi)

| college = Mississippi Valley State

| undraftedyear = 2003

| pastteams =

• Tennessee Titans ({{NFL Year|2003}}–{{NFL Year|2004}})*
• Amsterdam Admirals (2004)
• Philadelphia Soul ({{AFL Year|2005}})
• Nashville Storm (2007)

| afl = 4911

}}

Mario Branch (August 13, 1979 – April 8, 2011) was an American football offensive tackle. He was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2003, but did not make the team in two seasons. He was allocated to NFL Europe in 2004 to play for the Amsterdam Admirals. He played for the Philadelphia Soul in 2005 and for the Nashville Storm in 2007. He played college football at Mississippi Valley State.

He died due to congestive heart failure in April 2011 at the age of 31.{{cite news |author=Wyatt, Jim |title=Branch, a former Titans lineman, dies at age 31 |url=http://blogs.tennessean.com/titans/2011/04/08/former-titan-lineman-branch-dies-at-age-31/ |work=The Tennessean |date=April 8, 2011 |accessdate=April 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921145728/http://blogs.tennessean.com/titans/2011/04/08/former-titan-lineman-branch-dies-at-age-31/ }}{{cite web |last1=Wyatt |first1=Jim |title=Steve McNair not the only Titan to die young |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nfl/titans/2014/07/04/tennessee-titans-deaths-mcnair-branch/12214323/ |publisher=tennessean.com |accessdate=July 12, 2020 |date=July 4, 2014}}