Ken Stabler played at Alabama from 1964-67 and in the NFL for 18 years, most notably with the Oakland Raiders. His daughter, Alexa, recently became certified as a sports agent. (File photo)

Alexa Stabler is only 30 years old, so she was not yet born when her famous father retired from football.

But the daughter of the late Alabama and NFL quarterback legend Ken Stabler saw plenty of her father's post-football life, and not all of it was pleasant. So she's decided to try and help the next generation of Ken Stablers avoid similar pitfalls.

Alexa Stabler recently was informed she had passed the NFL player agent certification exam, administered by the league's player's union. Already a practicing attorney, she has launched Mobile-based Stabler Sports, and hopes to begin representing NFL players and prospects soon.

"I'm hoping to start here locally," Alexa Stabler said in an interview Tuesday on "Sports Drive" on Mobile's WNSP-FM 105.5. "There's so much talent in this state. This is my home, this is where I grew up, where I went to college and law school, and this is where I live now. There are about 20 guys actively playing in the NFL from Mobile or Baldwin County. The pipeline is strong with more to head that way."

Alexa Stabler was born in 1986, nearly two years after he father retired from the NFL after an almost two-decade career that saw him win an MVP Award and a Super Bowl with the famed Oakland Raiders teams of the 1970s. He finished his playing days with the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints in the early 1980s, and in 2016 was posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

However, the elder Stabler's off-field life was not always glorious, including financial difficulties, alcohol problems and three divorces. His brain was donated to Boston University researchers following his death from colon cancer at age 69 in 2015, and an examination revealed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease experts say can be triggered by head injuries suffered in football.

Alexa Stabler is shown with her late father, former Alabama and NFL quarterback Ken Stabler. Alexa Stabler recently became certified as an NFL player agent. (Photo courtesy of Alexa Stabler)

"My dad is 100 percent the reason I am doing this," Alexa Stabler said. "I grew up the daughter of a professional athlete and I saw what happened after football -- meaning what happened physically, mentally, emotionally, financially. I've seen that repeated in my dad's teammates and other players. And I saw some judgment calls that maybe could have been made differently. ... I feel like this is a great marriage of my professional life as an attorney and my personal life as the daughter of a professional athlete. And I just want to make a better life for my clients. These players who work so hard."

Alexa Stabler graduated from Gulf Shores High School and then followed her father to the University of Alabama, where she attained bachelor's and law degrees. While beginning the process of transitioning into professional athlete representation, she has been working as an intellectual property attorney at the Mobile firm AdamsIP, where her husband, Hunter Adams, also works.

Alexa Stabler is certified to begin representing clients now, though she cannot solicit business with those already under representation agreements with another agent until 60 days before their current contract expires. Consequently, she's likely to focus on younger clients as opposed to veterans.

"My initial focus, as with most first-year agents, will be with the guys that will be eligible for (the 2018) draft," Stabler said. "We can have a meeting ... but nothing of value can be exchanged, and they can't sign with you until they're done with their season.

"There's so much talent in Mobile and Baldwin Counties and in the state of Alabama. There's no one local representing these guys, so I'm hoping to fill that void."