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Kevin Devine (American football)

American football

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ6396145 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kevin Devine (born December 11, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for three seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-12-11. For this dossier, Kevin, Devine and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american football” 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

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6396145. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kevin Devine (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.