Leigh Steinberg signs elite athletes aiming to boost charity awareness and improve their home communities

Despite an awesome 51 years successful the sports manufacture representing the crème de la crème of athletes, Leigh Steinberg's vocation arsenic an cause 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 the archetypal 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 imagination of some reaching Hall of Fame presumption and embedding philanthropy into the minds of their loyal instrumentality base.

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Kordell Stewart, left, and Troy Aikman, right, photographed present with sports cause Leigh Steinberg, are 2 of the 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 happening astatine their colleges, charitable foundations astatine the nonrecreational level wherever they instrumentality immoderate contented they’d similar to code and acceptable up a foundation," Steinberg told Fox News Digital, "all with the conception of an jock arsenic a relation model."

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

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

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

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

Beyond moving with athletes to take a foundational focus, Steinberg clocks clip regular arsenic seat of the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to amended and rise accusation astir the risks of diversion concussions and money prophylactic attraction of concussions and healing the concussed brain.

"In a athletics similar football, which is simply a postulation mishap successful each play and concussion is an disfigured specter, I’ve tried to beryllium proactive implicit the years," Steinberg told Fox News Digital. "I had a situation of conscience backmost successful the 1980s due to the fact that I was representing fractional of the starting quarterbacks successful the NFL. They kept getting deed successful the head, and we would spell to doctors and inquire however 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 the instauration has worked with attraction clinics IQMIND and NESTRE to place 2 caller breakthrough technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neurofeedback, which heal a concussed encephalon done the mentation of neuroplasticity.

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

"We besides effort to supply attraction for underserved communities that don't needfully person a mode to woody with encephalon health," Steinberg said. "So we'll beryllium looking to bring attraction to a fig of radical who wouldn't different person it."

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

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

"There's anticipation retired determination and radical request to cognize they tin get treatment," Steinberg said.