# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josh-mccown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:48.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josh-mccown"
name: "Josh McCown"
slug: "josh-mccown"
description: "Joshua Treadwell McCown is an American professional football coach and former quarterback. He is the offensive passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). McCown played three seasons of college football for the SMU Mustangs, throwing for 27 touchdowns and 34 interceptions. He then transferred to play his final season of college football for the Sam Houston State Bearkats. In his only season with the Bearkats, he threw for 3,481 yards, 32 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, earning Southland Football League Player of the Year and third-team Division I-AA All-American honors. McCown was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the third round of the 2002 NFL draft. A journeyman quarterback, McCown was in the NFL for eighteen seasons and was a member of twelve different franchises. He also played one year in the United Football League (UFL)."
tagline: "American football player (born 1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josh_McCown_2015.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: "1979-07-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.76
  momentum:             0.3792895845875979
  historical:           8.114922666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JoshMcCown12"
    handle:    "JoshMcCown12"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McCown"
    title: "Josh McCown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B4_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "چوش مكون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McCown"
    title: "Josh McCown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McCown"
    title: "Josh McCown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McCown"
    title: "Josh McCown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McCown"
    title: "Josh McCown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McCown"
    title: "Josh McCown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_McCown"
    title: "Josh McCown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョシュ・マカウン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778384"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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