# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-neal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:50:37.866Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-neal"
name: "Stephen Neal"
slug: "stephen-neal"
description: "Stephen Matthew Neal is an American former professional football player who spent his entire career as a guard for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He is a former world champion in freestyle wrestling and two-time NCAA national champion wrestler at Cal State-Bakersfield. He was signed by the Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2001, and won three Super Bowl rings with the team. He is one of a handful of NFL players who did not play college football."
tagline: "American football player (born 1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen-Neal_8-28-09_Patriots-vs-Redskins.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: "1976-10-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.54
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.376734666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BB"
    title: "Стівен Ніл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ستيفن نيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ستيفن نيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Neal"
    title: "Stephen Neal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Neal"
    title: "Stephen Neal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Neal"
    title: "Stephen Neal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Neal"
    title: "Stephen Neal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Neal"
    title: "Stephen Neal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD)"
    title: "Нил, Стивен (спортсмен)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1596696"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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