Jovan Belcher

Football Player

Male

Born Jul 24, 1987

Age 25

Hometown West Babylon, New...

Team Kansas City Chiefs

Position Linebacker

Jovan Allen Belcher is an American football linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He played collegiately with the Maine Black Bears. He played defensive end during his junior and senior years, after switching to the position… Read More

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Barbara Bruno: Media Training For Nfl And College Football Players: Sign Us Up!
Huffington Post - Apr 15, 2013

In the 21st century, we could all use the kind of media training provided for college football stars and NFL Draft hopefuls. Quick -- describe yourself in pithy, media-friendly sound bytes that will translate into lucrative business deals. Yeah, I couldn't do it either. The days of working at IBM for 40 years and retiring with a pension that will actually fund one's golden years are over. Corporations have proven in this recession that they are happy to fire expensive, experienc...
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Ziba Cranmer: Violence Against Women: What's Sport Got To Do With It?
Huffington Post Sports - Mar 13, 2013

Say "violence against women" in the same sentence as the word "sport" and most people will conjure up thoughts of the Kansas City Chiefs' Jovan Belcher, South Africa's Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius or even O.J. Simpson -- each of whom have been accused of murdering a woman in instances of gender-based violence. It almost seems axiomatic these days that domestic-based violence and sport are intertwined in a toxic way, and unfortunately, it surprise...
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Soraya Chemaly: 'I Can't Forget What Happens, But No One Else Remembers'
The Huffington Post - Feb 15, 2013

The words below are the full text of a poem by an anonymous rape survivor. Yesterday, they were floated in the Reflecting Pool, with symbolic resonance, between the Lincoln and Washington Memorials in Washington, DC. The letters were put into the pool yesterday afternoon by the guerilla art movement FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. Over the course of several weeks, the FORCE team created giant, red styrofoam letters in order to assemble the words. Photo credit: FORCE: Upsetting Rap...
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom: American Football Culture And Sexual Violence
Huffington Post Sports - Feb 12, 2013

Co-authored by Imran Siddiquee, Social Media and Communications Director at MissRepresentation.org Steubenville. Notre Dame. Penn State. One cannot talk about American football in 2013 without talking about sexual violence. The past few years have inextricably, and horrifyingly, linked male aggression on the field with male aggression off it. And as we look back on the event for glorifying this most "manly" of sports in America -- the Super Bowl -- it's time to step back...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1987 Birth Born on July 24, 1987.

TWENTIES

2008 20 Years Old 2 More Events

Belcher was named to the second team pre-season All American team for the Football Championship Subdivision football prior to the 2008 season.

2009 21 Years Old 1 More Event

Prior to the 2009 NFL Draft, Belcher was considered one of the best “small-school prospects” in the draft and was projected to move back to outside linebacker in the NFL. … Read More

2010 22 Years Old He recorded 87 tackles. 10 tackles less than his 2010 season.

2011 23 Years Old Following the 2011 season, Belcher agreed to tender during the offseason.

2012 24 Years Old He was re-signed on March 22, 2012.

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