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Eddie Howard (American football)

American football punter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ104839466 ↗
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Edward L. Howard (born October 6, 1972) is an American former professional football player who was a punter for one season with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He had 9 punts for 324 yards in 2 games. He was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 1998.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-10-06. For this dossier, Eddie, Howard and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Eddie Howard (American football)” 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.