# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vance-joseph
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:18:38.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vance-joseph"
name: "Vance Joseph"
slug: "vance-joseph"
description: "Vance Desmond Joseph is an American professional football coach and former player who is the defensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes as a quarterback and running back in the 1990s, and was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 1995, playing cornerback for them and then the Indianapolis Colts in 1996. After spending 12 years as a defensive coach in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers, Houston Texans, Cincinnati Bengals, and Miami Dolphins, Joseph was hired by the Broncos to be their head coach in 2017 before getting fired after the 2018 season. After his first tenure with the Broncos, Joseph served as defensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals from 2019 to 2022, before being hired by the Broncos as defensive coordinator in 2023."
tagline: "American football player and coach (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vance_joseph_2018_(cropped).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: "1972-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.27
  momentum:             3.211991434689507
  historical:           4.667248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "فانس جوزيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "فانس چوزيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Joseph"
    title: "Vance Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Joseph"
    title: "Vance Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Joseph"
    title: "Vance Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7914038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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