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Kennedy Nkeyasen

Player of American and Canadian football

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16217514 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kennedy Nkeyasen (born April 7, 1976) is a former free safety (converted from running back) who played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.

Nkeyasen was drafted out of college by Saskatchewan (18th overall) in 1999. The CFL awarded him non-import status because he played his high school football at Thom Collegiate in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended college at Idaho State University.

Nkeyasen missed most of the 2007 CFL season due to an achilles tendon injury suffered in a pre-season game.

In June 2008, Kennedy accepted a Public Relations position with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kennedy Nkeyasen” as player of American and Canadian football. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1976, 1999, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-04-07. The account is most persuasive where Kennedy, Nkeyasen and Player can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as player of American and Canadian football. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16217514. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1999, 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kennedy Nkeyasen” 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.