Player Above Sports Group ("PASG") was founded by Super Bowl Champion and All-Pro Safety TJ Ward and veteran sports manager Markeese LaVette. Their longtime friendship and wealth of sports business experiences sparked their drive to start PASG and help produce the type of long-term success for their clients that has eluded professional athletes and the sports management business for decades. 

TJ has experienced and achieved the highest accolades a professional athlete can attain--from PAC-10 Champion at Oregon, to having his name called early in the NFL Draft, to being named All-Pro and signing lucrative veteran contracts, to helping lead the “No Fly Zone” Defense and helping his Broncos team win Super Bowl 50. As a professional athlete who lived through those high peaks, he also witnessed empty promises from teams and managers as well as friends and teammates mired in financial distress due to a lack of professional oversight, planning, and execution. 

During his NFL tenure, TJ formed a close friendship with Markeese while he was helping manage and represent lottery picks, rookies, and veterans in the NBA and NFL. Together, TJ and Markeese learned valuable lessons from both athlete and sports management perspectives, culminating in their desire to change the sports management game by helping ensure long-term financial success for all of their clients.