Peter Schaffer (born 1962) is an American sports agent and lawyer who represents players in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, PGA Tour, the National Basketball Association, the Premier Lacrosse League and the National Hockey League.
Schaffer was born in 1962, in upstate New York. He attended Cortland High School and then The Hill School, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania on an athletic and academic scholarship, graduating in 1980 with honors. Schaffer then attended Franklin & Marshall College, graduating in 1984 with honors while playing both varsity lacrosse and hockey. In 1987, he graduated from Brooklyn Law School. In 2019, he was awarded The Alumni Citation from Franklin & Marshall College. [1]
Schaffer represents many football players, [2] including Joe Mixon. [3]
In 2011, Schaffer started his own agency called Authentic Athletix, LLC, a sports and entertainment agency. [4]
Schaffer appears on ABC Nightly News, [5] Fox Sports , [6] The Dan Patrick Show , [7] HBO Real Sports and 60 Minutes . [8]
On August 11, 2015, the Esquire Network premiered The Agent, a documentary which documented Schaffer and three other NFL agents as they court potential clients in the months leading up to the NFL draft. In the documentary, Schaffer's clients included Mario Edwards Jr., Connor Halliday—who had a broken leg at the time—Gerod Holliman and Adam Jones. [9]