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Armon Watts

American football player (born 1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ63351458
Source-derived summary

Armon Watts (born July 22, 1996) is an American professional football defensive tackle. He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Professional career

Minnesota Vikings

Watts was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round (190th overall) of the 2019 NFL draft.

On November 10, 2019, Watts combined for a sack of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott with teammate Everson Griffen in a 28–24 win on Sunday Night Football. It was his first career game. He was placed on injured reserve on December 31, 2019.

Watts was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the Vikings on August 4, 2020, and was activated two days later.

Watts was waived by the Vikings on August 30, 2022.

Chicago Bears

On August 31, 2022, Watts was claimed by waivers by the Chicago Bears.

Pittsburgh Steelers

On April 12, 2023, Watts signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Armon Watts” is american football player (born 1996). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Armon, Watts and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2019, 2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-07-22. For this dossier, Armon, Watts and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american football player (born 1996)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63351458. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2019, 2020 and 2022.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Armon Watts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.