Steve Young is the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, a team renowned for greatness at this pivotal position. His Hall-of-Fame career spanned over fifteen seasons, and he is the highest-rated QB in the National Football League's history. Young was named NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1992 and 1994, but his crowning achievement came when he led his 49ers to victory in Super Bowl XXIX, being named the game MVP. This seven-time Pro-Bowler's other gridiron achievements include being the only quarterback in NFL history to win four consecutive passing titles, the only QB to post four consecutive seasons with a rating above 100, and the only QB to post six consecutive 300-yard plus passing games.

Young's passion for football began as a toddler, and only grew from there. His incredible speed and surprising agility often found him playing running back during his years at Greenwich High School. As the great, great, great-grandson of Brigham Young, founder of Brigham Young University, BYU was the logical next step in Young's football career. At BYU, Young set collegiate record on top of collegiate record. In his senior year, he was named a consensus All-American and was the Heisman Trophy runner-up. In 1983, Young was a first-round draft pick in the, now defunct, United States Football League, and garnered a record-setting contract. After two seasons, he was released from his contract and signed with the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Traded to the San Francisco 49ers as a back-up quarterback in 1987, Young watched and learned. Patiently awaiting his chance to lead the team of the 80s into the 90s. In 1991, Young got his chance and assumed the starting position, which he held until his retirement in 2000.

Young, always considered one of the NFL's most charitable players, has founded and chaired several organizations. His Forever Young Foundation (FYF) is actively involved in children's charities in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Utah. Recently, FYF has focused on a project in two Children's Hospitals, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University and Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. Both were the recipients of new, state-of-the-art, interactive, recreational therapy rooms called Forever Young Zones. These rooms are created with the intent to provide tools for exercising the imagination of children who find themselves away from home, facing the emotional and physical challenges that serious illness brings.

Young currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for Found, Inc., an Internet technology company, and is a studio analyst for ESPN's NFL Countdown.

In addition to his Bachelor of Science degree he received from BYU in 1983, Young also earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1994.