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Jameis Winston

American football player (born 1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Jameis Lanaed Winston is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Winston played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, where he became the youngest player ever to win the Heisman Trophy and led his team to victory in the 2014 BCS National Championship Game during his freshman year in 2013. He was selected first overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2015 NFL draft.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jameis Winston” as american football player (born 1994). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jameis, Winston and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2013, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jameis, Winston and American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Jameis Winston”, the useful work is to connect “american football player (born 1994)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2013 and 2015.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Jameis Winston” 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.