# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ty-detmer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:46:10.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ty-detmer"
name: "Ty Detmer"
slug: "ty-detmer"
description: "Ty Hubert Detmer is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He won the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Davey O'Brien Award in 1990 while playing college football for the BYU Cougars. Detmer broke numerous National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) records with BYU and was twice recognized as a consensus All-American. A late-round pick in the 1992 NFL draft, Detmer played for six NFL teams over 14 seasons, mostly in a backup role. He is currently the athletic director at American Leadership Academy – Gilbert North High School in Gilbert, Arizona."
tagline: "American football player and coach (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ty_Detmer_6-2009.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: "1967-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.06
  momentum:             14.47647951441578
  historical:           6.255481333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ty Detmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "تى ديتمير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Detmer"
    title: "Ty Detmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Detmer"
    title: "Ty Detmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Detmer"
    title: "Ty Detmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Detmer"
    title: "Ty Detmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Detmer"
    title: "Ty Detmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1147480"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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