Lance Briggs

About The Author

Sacramento, California native Lance Briggs started his sports career playing baseball for Florin Little League at 6 years old. Due to a suspension of the South Sac Vikings Youth Football Club, Lance started his football career with the Elk Grove Knights at the age of 7. In Elk Grove, Lance found a community that would not allow him to fail. He commuted to and attended Elk Grove High School, from Sacramento, and during his senior year, accepted a scholarship to play football and attend college at the University of Arizona. While at Arizona, he was a three-time first-team All-Pac-10 Conference selection as a linebacker for the Wildcats football team.

The Chicago Bears selected Briggs in the third round (68th overall) of the 2003 NFL Draft. He was the 13th linebacker drafted in 2003 and went on to play 12 yrs for the Bears as a 7x Pro Bowler as well as a 3x All Pro. 

Books by Lance Briggs

The Trap
By Lance Briggs and Kyle Higgins
Colorist Tamra Bonvillain / Illustrated by Danilo Beyruth
In a future where Earth is a neglected backwater in a vast interstellar alliance, a young athlete’s meteoric rise in a gravity-defying sport turns into a desperate fight to escape the systemic forces threatening to trap him forever.
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