LaVar RaShad Arrington was born on June 30,1978 and is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons in the National Football League.
31 Facts About LaVar Arrington
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LaVar Arrington played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and was selected with the second overall pick by the Washington Redskins of the 2000 NFL Draft.
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LaVar Arrington was a member of the New York Giants.
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LaVar Arrington played linebacker and running back at North Hills Senior High School in Pittsburgh.
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LaVar Arrington became the second player in Pennsylvania Class 4-A history to rush for more than 4,000 career yards, with 4,357 on 711 carries and 72 touchdowns.
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LaVar Arrington played in the 1997 Big 33 Football Classic, the annual game between Pennsylvania and Ohio's best high school football players.
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LaVar Arrington had top-jumps of 1.96 meters in the high jump and 6.76 meters in the long jump.
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LaVar Arrington was inducted into the WPIAL Hall of Fame on June 24,2011.
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LaVar Arrington was an All-Big-Ten selection, a first-team All-American in 1998, and a consensus first-team All-American in 1999.
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LaVar Arrington finished ninth in balloting for the 1999 Heisman Trophy.
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LaVar Arrington left Penn State after his junior season to enter the NFL draft.
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LaVar Arrington was joined in the honor by John Cappelletti, Jack Ham, and Shane Conlan.
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In March 2006 LaVar Arrington paid the Redskins $4.4 million to buy his free agency.
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LaVar Arrington was injured in week 7 against the Dallas Cowboys and missed the rest of the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
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However, on June 18,2007, LaVar Arrington was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in suburban Maryland.
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LaVar Arrington was on the Route 50 off-ramp of the Capital Beltway when he lost control of his 2007 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14, striking a guardrail.
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LaVar Arrington was rushed to Prince George's Medical Center, in serious but stable condition.
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LaVar Arrington sustained a broken right forearm, broken lower vertebrae, and deep cuts to his leg.
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LaVar Arrington was issued two citations, one for failure to control speed to avoid a collision, the other for operating a vehicle without a class license that contributed to a crash.
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LaVar Arrington started working on pregame and postgame shows for Comcast SportsNet before the Redskins' 2007 season week 3 loss to the Giants.
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LaVar Arrington returned to Comcast SportsNet's on-air lineup for week 3 of the 2008 NFL season, appearing on the pregame and postgame shows, and on Washington Post Live.
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On July 10,2014, it was announced that LaVar Arrington would be joining NFL Network's NFL AM program.
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In 2019 LaVar Arrington began working as a football analyst on FS1 on the "Speak For Yourself" sports talk program.
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LaVar Arrington formed a sports agency, Leap Management, LLC, in 2008.
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LaVar Arrington founded Xtreme Procision in 2010, a state-of-the-art football training system aimed at developing the world's next generation of football players.
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LaVar Arrington was named after LeVar Burton, following the actor's portrayal of Kunta Kinte in the 1977 television miniseries Roots.
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LaVar Arrington has an older brother, Michael, who played basketball at Slippery Rock University and a younger brother, Eric.
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LaVar Arrington's mother, Carolyn, is a special education teacher in the Pittsburgh public school system.
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LaVar Arrington opened a restaurant named The Sideline in Landover, Maryland on January 30,2008.
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LaVar Arrington appeared in several television commercials for Eastern Motors with fellow athletes Carmelo Anthony, Clinton Portis, Sean Taylor, and Antawn Jamison.
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LaVar Arrington appeared on a 2002 episode of the TLC program While You Were Out, where he helped redesign a room for his brother, Michael.