# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dont-a-hightower
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:32:20.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dont-a-hightower"
name: "Dont'a Hightower"
slug: "dont-a-hightower"
description: "Qualin Dont'a Hightower is an American football coach and former linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons with the New England Patriots. Hightower played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, earning consensus All-American honors and winning two BCS National Championships. Selected by New England in the first round of the 2012 NFL draft, he received two Pro Bowl selections and was named a second-team All-Pro, in addition to winning three Super Bowl titles. After retiring, he served as the inside linebackers coach for the Patriots in 2024."
tagline: "American football player (born 1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dont'a_Hightower_Patriots.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: "1990-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.03
  momentum:             2.402934882298991
  historical:           5.612718666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/zeus30hightower"
    handle:    "zeus30hightower"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont'a_Hightower"
    title: "Dont'a Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "دونتا هيجتوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont%E2%80%99a_Hightower"
    title: "Dont’a Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont'a_Hightower"
    title: "Dont'a Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont'a_Hightower"
    title: "Dont'a Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont'a_Hightower"
    title: "Dont'a Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3036863"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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