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Austin Reiter

American football player (born 1991)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ20710272
Source-derived summary

Austin Reiter (born November 27, 1991) is an American professional football center. He was selected by the Washington Redskins in the seventh round of the 2015 NFL draft. He played high school football at Lakewood Ranch High School in Florida and college football at South Florida.

Professional career

Washington Redskins

With their last pick in the 2015 NFL draft, the Washington Redskins selected Reiter in the seventh round with the 222nd overall pick. He signed a four-year contract with the team on May 8, 2015. He was waived on September 4 before the start of the regular season, but signed to the practice squad on September 29.

He signed a future deal on January 11, 2016. He was released by the Redskins on September 13, 2016. He was re-signed to the teams' practice squad the next day.

Cleveland Browns

On September 20, 2016, Reiter signed with the Cleveland Browns' active roster.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Austin Reiter” is american football player (born 1991). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Austin, Reiter 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—1991, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-11-27. For this dossier, Austin, Reiter and American is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “american football player (born 1991)” 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

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20710272. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Austin Reiter” 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.