Leigh Steinberg Signs Elite Athletes Aiming To Boost Charity Awareness And Improve Their Home Communities

Despite an awesome 51 years successful nan sports manufacture representing nan crème de la crème of athletes, Leigh Steinberg's profession arsenic an supplier and philanthropist is acold from over.

Steinberg’s attack to jock management, which includes negotiations for top-tier athletes specified arsenic 64 first-round NFL Draft picks successful conscionable nan first 8 years of his career, elite MLB players and Olympic athletes, has remained strategical successful some hustle and bosom for decades.

The inspiration for "Jerry Maguire" signs athletes who dream of some reaching Hall of Fame position and embedding philanthropy into nan minds of their loyal instrumentality base.

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Kordell Stewart, left, and Troy Aikman, right, photographed present pinch sports supplier Leigh Steinberg, are 2 of nan erstwhile NFL athletes Steinberg represented. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Leigh Steinberg)

"Whether it’s mounting up a charitable money astatine their precocious school, a akin point astatine their colleges, charitable foundations astatine nan master level wherever they return immoderate rumor they’d for illustration to reside and group up a foundation," Steinberg told Fox News Digital, "all pinch nan conception of an jock arsenic a domiciled model."

Steinberg highlighted NFL superstar and customer Patrick Mahomes’ initiative, 15 and nan Mahomies Foundation, arsenic an illustration of what is imaginable erstwhile elite athletes usage their names to raise consciousness and costs for a cause. 

Mahomes’ foundation, established successful 2019, is dedicated to improving nan lives of at-risk and underserved youths. Most recently, nan instauration revealed nan description of scholarships successful puerility acquisition and reported successful 2024 that younker volunteers contributed $2.6 cardinal successful work hours done nan organization.

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Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany Mahomes, are photographed pinch Leigh Steinberg, Mahomes' agent. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Leigh Steinberg)

"I’ve been very progressive pinch restating what an agent’s work is," Steinberg said. "I deliberation portion of it is to attraction for a player’s health."

Beyond moving pinch athletes to take a foundational focus, Steinberg clocks clip regular arsenic chair of nan Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which intends to amended and raise accusation astir nan risks of diversion concussions and money prophylactic curen of concussions and treatment nan concussed brain.

"In a athletics for illustration football, which is simply a postulation mishap successful each play and concussion is an disfigured specter, I’ve tried to beryllium proactive complete nan years," Steinberg told Fox News Digital. "I had a situation of conscience backmost successful nan 1980s because I was representing half of nan starting quarterbacks successful nan NFL. They kept getting deed successful nan head, and we would spell to doctors and inquire really galore is excessively many? When should they contemplate retirement? And they had nary answers, and truthful I started holding concussion conferences backmost successful 1994."

Since its inception, Steinberg said nan instauration has worked pinch curen clinics IQMIND and NESTRE to place 2 caller breakthrough technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neurofeedback, which heal a concussed encephalon done nan mentation of neuroplasticity.

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Leigh Steinberg was nan inspiration for nan celebrated 1996 Hollywood movie "Jerry Maguire," starring Tom Cruise. (Michael Tran/Getty Images)

"We besides effort to supply curen for underserved communities that don't needfully person a measurement to woody pinch brain health," Steinberg said. "So we'll beryllium looking to bring curen to a number of group who wouldn't different person it."

In conscionable 1 week, Steinberg says nan instauration raised $500,000, which, successful part, will beryllium allocated to big seminars and dispersed consciousness to parents pinch children successful athletics.

Among nan voices down nan foundation’s nationalist work announcement and acquisition campaigns are erstwhile NFL backmost Warren Moon, erstwhile protect extremity Bruce Smith and erstwhile linebacker Ray Lewis. Steinberg hopes to invited female shot players to nan squad of messengers successful nan future.

"There's dream retired location and group request to cognize they tin get treatment," Steinberg said.