Jeff Faine

Jeff Faine is a notable former professional football player in the National Football League. Playing center for almost a decade in the NFL, Faine first debuted with the Cleveland Browns in 2003 and last played with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2012. He was born in Milwaukie, Oregon in 1981 but grew up in Florida, where he starred on his high school football team at Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida, where he was a USA Today High School All-American. He went on to play college football for the University of Notre Dame. Shortly after, Faine was selected in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played for the Cleveland Browns for the first three seasons of his professional career before being traded to the New Orleans Saints for two seasons and again to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for three seasons. Faine was signed for the last time by the Bengals in 2012 and released that same year. Throughout the entirety of his career, he started in all 118 games that he played in. Faine was widely considered to be a hard-worker and dedicated teammate to all those who knew him.