# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/will-shields
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:24:54.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/will-shields"
name: "Will Shields"
slug: "will-shields"
description: "Will Herthie Shields is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons. He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, earning consensus All-American honors and winning the Outland Trophy. Shields played his entire, 14-year professional career with the Kansas City Chiefs and never missed a game. Shields was selected to 12 Pro Bowls, was a three-time First-Team All-Pro, a four-time Second-Team All-Pro, and was selected to the NFL 2000s All-Decade Team. He won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award in the 2003 season, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015."
tagline: "American football player (born 1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Will_Shields.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: "1971-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.28
  momentum:             10.12698866254954
  historical:           6.612065333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.willtosucceed.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shields"
    title: "Will Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "ويل شيلدز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "ويل شيلدز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shields"
    title: "Will Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shields"
    title: "Will Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shields"
    title: "Will Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shields"
    title: "Will Shields"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003096"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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