Jay Robert Leeuwenburg (born June 18, 1969) is a former American football

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in the National Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs,

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, and the Washington Redskins. He played

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at the University of Colorado and was drafted in the ninth round of the

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. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. At age twelve, Leeuwenberg was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Leeuwenburg coauthored the book ''Yes I Can! Yes You Can!'' with Denny Dressman, an autobiography that focuses on his struggles with diabetes and his journey to the NFL. Leeuwenburg currently works as a college football analyst on The mtn television network, of the NCAA Mountain West Conference. He is also an elementary school teacher at Colorado Academy, a high-achieving private K-12 school in Denver. He is a coach at D evelyn high school

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