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Jeff Lucas (American football)

football player (born 1964)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ108053690 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jeffrey Alan Lucas (born May 30, 1964) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers. In his career he played in and started three games for the Steelers in the 1987 season.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jeff Lucas (American football)” is football player (born 1964). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jeff, Lucas and American, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1964, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-05-30. For this dossier, Jeff, Lucas and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “football player (born 1964)” 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

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 Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108053690. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jeff Lucas (American football)” 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.