Position: Tackle / Guard Name Jay Leeuwenburg | Height 1.91 m Games Played: 137 Weight 133 kg | |
Date of birth: (1969-06-18) June 18, 1969 (age 46) NFL draft: 1992 / Round: 9 / Pick: 244 Education University of Colorado, University of Colorado Boulder | ||
Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri | ||
Jay Leeuwenburg: Football Tackle and Guard
Jay Robert Leeuwenburg (born June 18, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, Cincinnati Bengals, and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Colorado and was drafted in the ninth round of the 1992 NFL Draft.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. At age twelve, Leeuwenberg was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Leeuwenburg coauthered the book Yes I Can! Yes You Can! with Denny Dressman, an autobiography that focuses on his struggles with diabetes and his journey to the NFL.
Leeuwenburg currently works as a college football analyst on The mtn television network, of the NCAA Mountain West Conference. Leeuwenburg is also an elementary school teacher at Colorado Academy. Colorado Academy is a high-achieving private K-12 school in Denver, with high professional and academic expectations from every teacher. Students and families have consistently had great things to say about being in Mr. L's classroom.