# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-novacek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:35:32.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-novacek"
name: "Jay Novacek"
slug: "jay-novacek"
description: "Jay McKinley Novacek is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the St. Louis / Phoenix Cardinals (1985–1989) and the Dallas Cowboys (1990–1995). He played college football for the Wyoming Cowboys and was selected by the Cardinals in the sixth round of the 1985 NFL draft. Novacek was a five-time Pro Bowler, who was selected to play each year from 1991 through 1995. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008."
tagline: "Player of American football"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Jay_Novacek.JPG/330px-Jay_Novacek.JPG"
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: "1962-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.03
  momentum:             11.63398692810457
  historical:           5.745758666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Novacek"
    title: "Jay Novacek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "چاى نوڤاسيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Novacek"
    title: "Jay Novacek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Novacek"
    title: "Jay Novacek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Novacek"
    title: "Jay Novacek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Novacek"
    title: "Jay Novacek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q761728"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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