# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/byron-leftwich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:38:35.396Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/byron-leftwich"
name: "Byron Leftwich"
slug: "byron-leftwich"
description: "Byron Antron Leftwich is an American football coach and former quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd, winning MAC Most Valuable Player twice and placing sixth in Heisman voting his senior season. Leftwich was selected seventh overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2003 NFL draft. Leftwich held a starting role with the Jaguars during his first four seasons and spent the remainder of his career as a backup for the Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With the Steelers, Leftwich was a member of the team that won Super Bowl XLIII."
tagline: "American football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Byron_Leftwich.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1980-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.493857333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Byron Leftwich"
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    title: "بيرون ليفتويتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Byron Leftwich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Byron Leftwich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Leftwich"
    title: "Byron Leftwich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Leftwich"
    title: "Byron Leftwich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Leftwich"
    title: "Byron Leftwich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2756011"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump