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Jacksonville Real Producers ~ September 2023 ~ Cover Feature, Kyle Bosworth of Compass
September 2023 ~ Cover Feature, Kyle Bosworth of Compass
By Zachary Cohen
Photos By Cameron Hicks
FROM THE NFL TO REAL ESTATE
Kyle’s real estate journey began in 2014 as an investor. He was licensed in Texas the following year, his last in the NFL. After completing the 2015 season with his hometown Dallas Cowboys, Kyle and his wife started thinking about their next steps.
“Canadian teams were the only ones calling, and my wife followed me around the country for five years. It was time to find a home,” Kyle reflects. “We were working on growing our family, and I wanted to make the right choice for my family.”
The natural choice may have been to stay in Texas, where Kyle was born and raised and where he already held his real estate license. However, he and his wife had fallen in love with Jacksonville, where Kyle spent the first three years of his football career.
“In Jacksonville, we had a great community. The people here are what drew us back,” Kyle explains. “The neighbors and people we met while I was playing here would constantly tap in, text me, shoot me a message — ‘How’s the family? How are you doing?’ That was the biggest reason we moved back; the sense of community here felt so genuine. We wanted to raise our kids in that kind of life, one that felt like a village, and while Jacksonville was a place we had no connection to originally, once we made those connections, it felt like home.”
After five years as an NFL linebacker, Kyle Bosworth has built a second career that is even more successful than his first. Kyle’s time in the NFL was rich in experience and value, as he had the gift of playing on football’s largest stage for three franchises: the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New York Giants, and the Dallas Cowboys. Perhaps the most lasting impact of his time in the NFL was the skills he learned, the tenacity he sharpened, and the connections he made — all of which have continued to serve him in real estate.
DO THE RIGHT THING, WORK HARD, KNOW YOUR CRAFT, & SUCCESS WILL FOLLOW. - KYLE BOSWORTH
BUILDING A BUSINESS
The same connections that drew Kyle and his family to Jacksonville helped him get his business off the ground. He quickly became a go-to resource for Jaguars players and others in his inner circle.
After a year at Watson Realty, Kyle co-founded the brokerage RedZone Realty Group, which he led for the next six years. In 2021, he transitioned his business to Compass.
“The network Compass provides as a nationwide brokerage was attractive to me,” Kyle offers. “When I moved to Compass, the number of people referring business to me increased ten or twenty-fold.”
Kyle’s team, The Bosworth Group (also known as Team Boz), is currently a group of six: Kyle, four buyer’s agents, and one assistant. The team closed 86 transactions for $63.5 million in 2022.
LEAVING A LEGACY
Kyle has found many of the skills he sharpened as a football player have been valuable as a real estate agent. His ability to work hard, prepare, and follow through has been especially critical to his success. “There’s a crossover from athletics to sales. You work hard, play hard, and the reward is there. To succeed in either, you need high integrity and the ability to get stuff done. In football, you train your body, train your mind, and get ready for the game. That type of preparation makes me successful here,” Kyle explains.
MY LEGACY IS TO LEAVE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE THAN WHEN I ARRIVED, TO BE A GOOD PERSON, AND TO BE A GOOD DAD.— KYLE BOSWORTH
Kyle will undoubtedly leave a legacy for the work he put in on the gridiron, but he hopes to leave a larger legacy as a husband, father, and business owner. He and his wife, Kara, have three children and are expecting their fourth in November; Decker is seven, their second son, McCoy, passed away after six days on Earth (he’d be three), and their youngest, Vaughn, is now two.
Kyle’s favorite way to spend time with his family is what he calls PNP time — “play, no phone.” As a family, the Bosworths enjoy nature walks, bike riding, boating, and going to the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club to spend time with friends at the beach.
“My legacy is to leave the world a better place than when I arrived, to be a good person, and to be a good dad.”
