About the Author

Steve Silverman is an award-winning journalist who has been covering the NFL in print and on radio and television since 1981. Silverman was a senior editor at Pro Football Weekly from 1986 through 1996, and his writing was recognized by the Pro Football Writers of America on three different occasions. Since then he has written about the NFL and college football for CBS New York, Bleacher Report, Playboy, ESPN The Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC.com, NFL.com, Football Digest, and American Football Monthly.