You make the introduction. Our partners' teams do the rest.
A private referral network for former professional athletes and high-level connectors.
Started in 2015 for former NFL players
Now open to athletes from every sport, and to the connectors they trust
A national network approaching 20,000 contacts
No cost to join. Ever.
No cost. No commitment. Sign it and do nothing if you choose — it just means your introductions are protected.
What Pro Players Business does
You spent a career building relationships. Hometown, college, the locker room, and twenty-five years of life after the game. Business owners and decisionmakers who pick up when your name is on the screen.
Pro Players Business turns those relationships into documented introductions. You identify someone in your network who fits one of our business programs, you register the contact in Pro Edge, and you make the introduction. The program's own sales team handles the presentation, the questions, the paperwork, the onboarding, and every piece of follow-up.
No product training. No presentations. No quotas. No cold calls.
Where this came from
Brad Leggett started playing football at seven years old, because his father did it first. Pop Warner, high school, USC, the NFL. It was the only thing he ever did and the only thing he ever wanted to do.
Then it ended, the way it ends for everybody. And in that era, the league and the union didn't have the transition programs they have today. There was no next chapter waiting. He had to build one cold.
Talking to more and more former players, two things came into focus.
The first: almost every one of them was going through the same transition and going through it alone.
The second was the opening. Former players have extraordinary contacts, and they make introductions all the time, for free. What they don't have is infrastructure. They aren't business guys. So, the introduction gets made on a handshake, nothing goes in writing, and the player ends up outside the deal he created. Brad heard that story over and over. It had happened to him over and over.
A national platform where players could pool and share each other's relationships — with real structure behind it — could be a powerful thing. That's what got built.
Brad Leggett, Founder
Former New Orleans Saints and Detroit Lions center
The Two Rules
Pro Players Business was founded in 2015 on two rules. Eleven years later they haven't changed, and they won't.
Rule one — there is never a fee to join.
No fee. Nothing to buy. No starter package, no inventory, no monthly minimum. This is not a pay-to-participate opportunity and it never will be.
Rule two — everybody is papered up on the front end.
Before an introduction is made, it is in writing who is protected and what everybody makes. No handshakes. No relying on somebody remembering who brought it in.
You already know the right people.
Health & fitness clubs and gyms · Chiropractic and physical therapy · Medical doctors and functional medicine · Med spas and wellness centers · Restaurants, franchises, and food & beverage · Any business owner with a recurring client base
One real relationship in one of these worlds is all it takes to start. Our engagement team walks you through every step.
Where the network is now
PPB started with former NFL players. About two and a half years ago it opened to former NBA, MLB, and NHL players and to high-level connectors outside of sports — people whose value is the same thing: a phone full of decision-makers who answer.
Today the network's reach is close to 20,000, with roughly 3,000 signed independent referral reps at its core. And every one of those relationships connects to more.
National reach, regional strength. The real asset is local. Most of our reps are known in their own market. They grew up there, they made it to the league, and the people who matter in that town know the name. They can walk into an office, a practice, or a business in their territory and get the meeting. Not from a cold email. Because of whom they are there.
What changed isn't the idea. It's the machinery.
Every introduction in this network now runs through Pro Edge — our proprietary AI rep management system. Register your contact, Pro Edge runs the conflict check, Pro Edge's AI algorithms determine which business program fits, and Pro Edge issues your Green Light Gameplan before you say a word to anybody.
Put the relationships to work.
If you can pick up the phone and call someone who'll answer, you have what this takes.
Where Relationships Become Revenue.
Pro Players Business is a private referral network built around documented introductions and trusted relationships.
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Pro Players Business LLC is a Utah limited liability company registered to transact business in Florida on March 26, 2026, with its principal office at 2125 Biscayne Boulevard, Ste 204 #25595, Miami, FL 33137. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NFL, NFL Alumni, NFL Legends, the NFLPA, the NFLRPA, or any league, team, or players association.
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