Don Yee represents National Football League players and coaches, including former quarterback Tom Brady, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, former New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, and Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton.
10 Facts About Don Yee
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Don Yee has been highly praised by media including Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post for his work in representing Brady.
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Don Yee went to college at UCLA, during which he interned at Sacramento's KFBK radio station as a producer for a nightly sports talk show.
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Don Yee graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987.
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Don Yee decided to become a sports agent in 1988, which the Sacramento Bee described as a long shot, similar to someone "marching into Hollywood hopeful his manuscript would be snatched up".
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Don Yee was someone that really had the same goal where I could find the right spot and my career could flourish.
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Don Yee represents Jimmy Garoppolo, a former Patriots quarterback who is with the Los Angeles Rams.
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Don Yee has been described as a "megaphone for players' rights" and has publicly taken controversial opinions in the sports world.
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Don Yee argued in a 2010 op-ed in The Washington Post that college football players should be paid, arguing that it would "implement an honest approach to the combination of big-time football and higher education, an approach that eliminates the NCAA's notion of amateurism".
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In 2017, Don Yee co-founded the Pacific Pro Football league, an alternative to college football, with funding from angel investors.