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Jack Sanborn

American football player (born 2000)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ110550918
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Jack Sanborn (born July 29, 2000) is an American professional football linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers.

After not being selected in the 2022 NFL draft, he signed by the Bears as an undrafted free agent. He spent his first three seasons in Chicago before playing a year with the Dallas Cowboys.

Early life

Sanborn grew up in Deer Park, Illinois. He was raised by his mother following the death of his father, Paul Sanborn, when he was four years old. Sanborn attended Lake Zurich High School in Lake Zurich, Illinois. As a senior, he played in the Illinois State Football Championship and after the season, was named the Pioneer Press Defensive Player of the Year after recording 120 tackles and three sacks as a senior. Sanborn had 296 tackles and 13 sacks in three varsity seasons at Lake Zurich. He was rated a four-star recruit and committed to play college football at Wisconsin over several other Power Five offers.

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“Jack Sanborn” enters the record as american football player (born 2000). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jack, Sanborn and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-07-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jack, Sanborn and American.
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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 Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110550918. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Jack Sanborn” 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.