Enjoy the chance for you and 3 guests to meet former NFL player, UGA Bulldog, Author, Speaker and CEO, Rennie Curran, via Zoom!
Rennie Curran is a former professional athlete, speaker, author, and personal development coach who has a passion for improving leadership, career performance, and personal branding. Rennie’s unique combination of leadership experiences with the National Football League, The Jon Gordon Companies, and building his own company has translated to powerful and practical coaching, training, and speaking services for his clients. For several years Rennie has worked with schools, universities, associations, sales teams, and service management companies in the capacity of speaker, coach, strategic partner, and brand ambassador. In addition, Rennie is the author of Free Agent: Intangible Assets For Overcoming Adversity and Times of Transition (April 2013); and What Does It Take To Be A Star? (August 2017). Both of his motivational self-help books discuss the importance of character and have been used in several schools across the southeast.
A former UGA Bulldog, Curran’s three year career at the University of Georgia was nothing short of spectacular. When he arrived at Georgia in 2007, he was considered by many as being too undersized to start at linebacker for an SEC team. But once Curran stepped onto the field, he quickly silenced any doubters with one punishing tackle at a time. Making up for his lack of size with superb technique, quickness, and strength, Curran was poised to break onto the SEC scene. During his freshman season, Curran played in 11 games, starting 5 of them. He compiled 53 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, and 3 sacks. He was named first-team Freshman All-American by Rivals.com, second-team Freshman All-American by Scout.com and was an Honorable Mention by The Sporting News.
As a sophomore, he started all 13 games, leading the team in tackles on 9 separate occasions and topping all Bulldog defenders with 115 tackles and 10 tackles for loss. He also recorded 3 sacks and forced 2 fumbles. He was honored as a Butkus Award Finalist and earned the Bulldogs Defensive MVP Award. Additionally, he was named first-team All-SEC by the league’s coaches, second team All-SEC by the Associated Press, Sophomore All-American by College Football News and College Athlete of the Year by the Allied Athlete Group Foundation in Atlanta.
As a junior he led the team in tackles 11 different times, accumulating an SEC-leading 130 tackles, with 5 tackles for loss, half a sack, 3 pass breakups and 10 quarterback pressures. A finalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award, he also earned first-team All-SEC accolades by the Associated Press and the SEC coaches, first-team All-American by CBSSports.com and was awarded the Bulldog’s Vince Dooley MVP Award. In January of 2010, Curran decided to forgo his senior season and enter the NFL Draft. He finished his Bulldog career cementing his legacy as one of the greatest linebackers in the history of the program.
In his three years between the hedges, he played in 37 games, starting 30 of them, and ranked 16th in school history with 298 career tackles. He became only the 10th player in school history to lead the team in tackles during multiple seasons, and was the first Bulldog to record consecutive 100 tackle seasons since Greg Bright accomplished the feat during the 1996-97 season. The Tennessee Titans selected Rennie Curran with their second pick in the third round (97th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft.
During his rookie season, Curran played in 9 games and recorded 8 total tackles. He spent time with the Tampa bay Buccaneers in 2012 before joining the Edmonton Eskimos in 2013. After an amazing two and a half year campaign with the Edmonton Eskimos and B.C. Lions, Curran became a free agent and set his sights on getting back into the NFL by taking part in the Spring League in April of 2017. The experience was short lived as he ended up tearing the patella tendon in his left knee. In May of 2017 Curran decided to retire from the game of football and focus his efforts on using his gifts, talents, and experiences to help students, business professionals, and the next generation of athletes reach their fullest potential.