# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cedric-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:46:45.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cedric-benson"
name: "Cedric Benson"
slug: "cedric-benson"
description: "Cedric Myron Benson was an American professional football player who spent eight years as a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and won the Doak Walker Award in 2004. He was selected by Chicago with the fourth overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft."
tagline: "American football player (1982–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cedric_Benson.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: "1982-12-28"
deathDate: "2019-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             0.4365384615384615
  historical:           8.728705333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سيدريك بينسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سيدريك بينسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Benson"
    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Benson"
    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Benson"
    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Benson"
    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Benson"
    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Benson"
    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Benson"
    title: "Cedric Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1122753"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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