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

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Despite an impressive 51 years in the sports industry representing the crème de la crème of athletes, Leigh Steinberg's career as an agent and philanthropist is far from over.

Steinberg’s approach to athlete management, which includes negotiations for top-tier athletes such as 64 first-round NFL Draft picks in just the first eight years of his career, elite MLB players and Olympic athletes, has remained strategic in both hustle and heart for decades.

The inspiration for "Jerry Maguire" signs athletes who dream of both reaching Hall of Fame status and embedding philanthropy into the minds of their loyal fan base.

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Kordell Stewart, left, and Troy Aikman, right, photographed here with sports agent Leigh Steinberg, are two of the former NFL athletes Steinberg represented. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Leigh Steinberg)

"Whether it’s setting up a charitable fund at their high school, a similar thing at their colleges, charitable foundations at the professional level where they take some issue they’d like to address and set up a foundation," Steinberg told Fox News Digital, "all with the concept of an athlete as a role model."

Steinberg highlighted NFL superstar and client Patrick Mahomes’ initiative, 15 and the Mahomies Foundation, as an example of what is possible when elite athletes use their names to raise awareness and funds for a cause. 

Mahomes’ foundation, established in 2019, is dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk and underserved youths. Most recently, the foundation revealed the expansion of scholarships in