Christian Montano G
Tulane (6-4, 300)
NFL Experience: 1
After spending the 2020 preseason with Pittsburgh as an undrafted free agent out of Tulane University, Montano signed with the Saints in the 2021 offseason…Agreed to terms with Saints, 4/20/21; Waived by Steelers, 8/2/20…Signed by Steelers as undrafted free agent, 4/26/20…Highly productive college career at Brown University (2014-18) and Tulane (2019)…Spent first five seasons at Brown, where he was a three-year starter, second-team All-Ivy honoree and two-time semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy (academic Heisman Trophy)…After graduating from Brown with an economics degree, spent his graduate transfer season in 2019 at Tulane, where he was started all 13 games for a Green Wave offense that was a catalyst for an attack that averaged more than 33 points and 455 yards of total offense a game. The Green Wave's rushing attack totaled a school-record 3,612 rushing yards as Tulane won Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, winning bowl games in back-to-back seasons for the first time…Orange, Conn. native was the 2019 Walter Camp Connecticut Player of the Year, an award voted on by the Walter Camp Football Foundation and presented to the top college football player who is a resident and/or played scholastically in the state of Connecticut. Also a semifinalist for the Jason Witten College Man of the Year Award. Attended Hamden Hall Country Day School (Orange, Conn.)…Achieved honor roll status in each of his eight semesters at Brown…Received an award for independent science research at as an undergraduate about the effects of fertilizer runoff on local aquatic habitats…Named to National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society in 2018 for having maintained at least a 3.2 GPA…Donated bone marrow to save a man's life and has since met and formed a strong relationship with the man.
