Steve Young was named the Most Valuable Player of the NFL in 1992 and 1994, the MVP of Super Bowl XXIX, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, the first left-handed quarterback to be so honored. Steve Young holds the NFL record for highest career passer rating and won six NFL passing titles.

Steve Young entered the National Football League through the 1984 supplemental draft.  After spending two seasons in the ill-fated United States Football League, the consensus All-America from Brigham Young was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in first round of the special draft.

In 1987, Steve Young was traded to the San Francisco 49ers where he served as the backup to Hall of Famer Joe Montana.  After seeing limited action in his first four seasons with the 49ers, Steve Young stepped into the starting role in 1991 after Montana suffered an injury.  Steve Young wasted little time in taking command of the 49ers offense.  Despite a knee injury that forced him out of five games that season, Steve Young passed for 2,517 yards and 17 touchdowns to post a league high 101.8 passer rating – the first of four straight passing titles.  Steve Young added two more passing titles in 1996 and 1997 to tie him with the legendary Sammy Baugh as the only quarterbacks in history to win six NFL passing crowns.

His finest season came in 1994 when he posted a then-record 112.8 passer rating by completing 324 of 461 passes for 3,969 yards and 35 touchdowns.  Steve Young also added seven rushing touchdowns as he guided the 49ers to a NFC West title with a 13-3 record.  The team then coasted through the post-season.  In the NFC championship game that year,  Steve Young threw two touchdowns and rushed for one as the 49ers downed the Dallas Cowboys 38-28.  He topped off the year with an incredible performance in San Francisco 's 49-26 win over the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX.  Steve Young passed for 325 yards and threw a Super Bowl record six touchdowns.  He also was the game's leading rusher with 49 yards on five carries.  For his efforts, he was named the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player.

During his NFL career, the left-hander threw for 3,000 or more yards six times and had 20 or more touchdown passes in a season five times, and posted a passer rating of 100 or higher six times.  Aside from his passing ability, Steve Young was a constant threat as a runner.  He ran for 4,239 yards and scored 43 rushing touchdowns.

Steve Young, one of the most accurate passers in league history, was named All-Pro in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1998 and earned All-NFC honors three times.  The two-time league MVP also was selected to the Pro Bowl seven times.

Steve Young's charitable contributions are vast. He founded and chairs the Forever Young Foundation (FYF) which is actively involved in children's charities in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Utah. Recently, FYF has focused on a project in two Children's Hospitals. Both The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University and Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City are the recipients of new, state of the art, interactive recreational-therapy rooms called Forever Young Zones. These rooms are created with the intent to provide tools for exercising the imagination of children who find themselves away from home, facing the emotional and physical challenges that serious illness brings.

Additionally, Steve young founded the Sport, Education and Values Foundation which is an official licensee of the United State's Olympic Committee dedicated to developing educational and value-based programs for America's youth. He is currently the broadcast host as well the former International Spokesperson for the Children's Miracle Network which has raised over one billion dollars world-wide to benefit children's hospitals. He is a board member of the American Indian Services.  Steve Young frequently donates his time to youth groups across the country as a motivational speaker.

Steve Young is a corporate spokesperson for high-profile companies such as Visa, Nike, Sprint, PowerBar, ICON Health & Fitness, and Sun Microsystems. He is the Chairman of the Board for Found, Inc.; an internet technology company that integrates retail stores with the internet. Frequent articles about Steve Young have appeared throughout the years. He has recently been profiled in a variety of periodicals such as Sports Illustrated, Inside Sports, People and GQ. Steve Young has appeared on a variety of talk shows and has dabbled in the acting world over the past years with roles in Beverly Hills 90210, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Wings, and Dharma & Greg. He was the studio co-host of the Super Bowl XXXIV pre-game, half-time and post-game show on ABC. He is currently a studio analyst for ESPN's NFL Countdown. Additionally, Steve  Young has written a children's book entitled Forever Young.