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Greg Ward

American football player (born 1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ22096950
Source-derived summary

Gregory Mario Ward Jr. (born July 12, 1995) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Dallas Renegades of the United Football League (UFL). He played college football at Houston as a quarterback and converted to wide receiver after going undrafted following his college career. Ward was a member of the Eagles' practice squad in 2017 when they won Super Bowl LII. He also played for the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football (AAF) in 2019.

Early life

Gregory Mario Ward Jr. was born and raised in Tyler, Texas. One of four children, Ward grew up in a "modest ranch house." Gregory Sr. worked as a truck driver and Pentecostal pastor.

Ward graduated from John Tyler High School in 2013. As a senior, he passed for 4,202 yards and 39 touchdowns while also rushing for 861 yards and 13 touchdowns.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Greg Ward” is american football player (born 1995). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Greg, Ward 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—1995, 2017, 2019, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-07-12. For this dossier, Greg, Ward and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american football player (born 1995)” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22096950. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2017, 2019 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Greg Ward” 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.