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Clint Session

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ4870549
Source-derived summary

Clint Session (born September 22, 1984) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Indianapolis Colts and Jacksonville Jaguars. He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers and was selected by the Colts in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL draft.

Early life

Session attended Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Florida and was an honor student and a letterman in football and track & field. In football, he was a four-year letterman and as a senior, he led his team to the Florida State Title. He was a first-team All-Broward County Athletic Association selection, a first-team All-Broward County selection, a first-team Class 5A All-Florida selection, and an All-Southwest Region selection by PrepStar.

College career

A team captain and two-year starter for the Pittsburgh Panthers, Session finished his college career with 259 tackles, 2.5 sacks, seven forced fumbles, and three interceptions.

Professional career

Indianapolis Colts

Session was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL draft. After spending his rookie season as a backup, he became a starter during his second season. He started 15 of 16 games for the Colts at outside linebacker, recording 94 tackles.

Jacksonville Jaguars

On July 28, 2011, Session signed a 5-year, $30 million contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Clint Session” as american football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Clint, Session and American.

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—1984, 2007, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-09-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Clint, Session and American providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4870549. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2007 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Clint Session” 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.