# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chuck-bednarik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:04:48.202Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chuck-bednarik"
name: "Chuck Bednarik"
slug: "chuck-bednarik"
description: "Charles Philip Bednarik, Jr., nicknamed \"Concrete Charlie\", was an American professional football linebacker and center who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn Quakers, and was selected with the first overall pick of the 1949 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, where he played his entire 14-year NFL career from 1949 through 1962. Bednarik is ranked one of the hardest hitting tacklers in NFL history, and was one of the league's last two-way players."
tagline: "American football player (1925-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ChuckBednarik1952Bowman.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: "1925-05-01"
deathDate: "2015-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.126936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Bednarik"
    title: "Chuck Bednarik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "تشوك بيدناريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Bednarik"
    title: "Chuck Bednarik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Bednarik"
    title: "Chuck Bednarik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Bednarik"
    title: "Chuck Bednarik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Bednarik"
    title: "Chuck Bednarik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Bednarik"
    title: "Chuck Bednarik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Bednarik"
    title: "Chuck Bednarik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1089096"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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