page_title: Hines Ward
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Hines Ward / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers prior to a 2008 game
context_page_description: Hines Edward Ward Jr. is an American-South Korean football coach and former wide receiver who is an offensive assistant for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Georgia and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. Ward played his entire professional career for the Steelers and he became the team's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yardage and touchdown receptions. Ward was voted MVP of Super Bowl XL and upon retirement was one of eleven NFL players to have at least 1,000 career receptions.
  Born in Seoul, South Korea, to a Korean mother and African-American father, Ward grew up in the Atlanta area. He has become an advocate for the social acceptance of foreigners in Korea, especially blended or mixed race youth.
  Aside from his career in the NFL, Ward has appeared in various forms of film and television media, including the reality TV series Dancing With The Stars and brief cameos in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises and in the television series The Walking Dead. He was a studio analyst for NBC's Football Night in America from 2012 to 2015.
context_section_description: Ward resides in Sandy Springs, Georgia, with wife Lindsey Georgalas-Ward and has a son named Jaden from his first marriage.  On his upper right arm he has a tattoo of Mickey Mouse  in the Heisman pose, just below a tattoo of his name in Korean.
caption: Ward prior to a game in 2008
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