# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derrick-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:25:25.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derrick-brooks"
name: "Derrick Brooks"
slug: "derrick-brooks"
description: "Derrick Dewan Brooks is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for his entire 14-year career in the National Football League (NFL) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brooks played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, earning consensus All-American honors twice. He was selected by the Buccaneers in the first round of the 1995 NFL draft. An 11-time Pro Bowl selection and five-time first-team All-Pro, Brooks was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2002 en route to winning the franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XXXVII. He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2016."
tagline: "American football player and executive (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derrick_Brooks_with_2006_Pro_Bowl_MVP_trophy_060210-N-4856G-129.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: "1973-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.583456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1707770/"
    handle:    "nm1707770"
sources:
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    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديريك بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديريك بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Brooks"
    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Brooks"
    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Brooks"
    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Brooks"
    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Brooks"
    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "デリック・ブルックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93843"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2613215"
    title: "Derrick Brooks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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