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Matt Haack

American football player (born 1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ29641048 ↗
Source-derived summary

Matthew Scott Haack (HAHK; born July 25, 1994) is an American professional football punter. Haack played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils and signed with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2017. He has also played for several other NFL teams.

Early life

Haack graduated from Dowling Catholic High School in 2013. He was rated by Rivals.com as the No. 15 kicker in the nation and the state of Iowa's No. 10 overall prospect. On September 14, 2018, Haack was inducted into the Dowling Catholic High School/St. Joseph Academy Athletic Hall of Fame for his exemplary high school career.

College career

Haack attended and played college football for Arizona State from 2013 to 2016.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Matt Haack” is american football player (born 1994). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Matt, Haack 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—1994, 2017, 2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-07-25. For this dossier, Matt, Haack and American is the immediate research focus.
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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 Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29641048. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2017, 2013 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Matt Haack” 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.