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Jamal Parker

American gridiron football player (born 1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ123472521 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jamal Parker Jr. (born January 16, 1998) is an American professional football defensive back who is currently a free agent.

College career

Parker played college football for the Kent State Golden Flashes from 2016 to 2019.

Professional career

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

On May 15, 2022, it was announced that Parker had signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He began the 2022 season on the team's practice roster following training camp. However, he was soon promoted to the active roster and played in 13 regular season games, starting in seven, where he had 37 defensive tackles, eight special teams tackles, four pass knockdowns, one interception, and one sack. He also played in both post-season games, including the 109th Grey Cup, where he recorded four defensive tackles in the loss to the Toronto Argonauts.

In 2023, Parker began the season on the six-game injured list. He only dressed in five of the first 15 regular season games as a back up defensive back, but started the last three games of the regular season and the West Final. For the regular season, he had 13 defensive tackles and three special teams tackles.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jamal Parker” is american gridiron football player (born 1998). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jamal, Parker and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2016, 2019, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-01-16. For this dossier, Jamal, Parker and American is the immediate research focus.
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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 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123472521. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2016, 2019 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jamal Parker” 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.