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Michael Crabtree

American football player (born 1987)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Michael Alex Crabtree Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, twice earning unanimous All-American honors. He was selected 10th overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2009 NFL draft. Crabtree was a member of the 49ers for six seasons and spent the remainder of his career with the Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Ravens, and Arizona Cardinals.

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“Michael Crabtree” enters the record as american football player (born 1987). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Michael, Crabtree and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Michael, Crabtree and American.
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“Michael Crabtree” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Michael, Crabtree and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 4, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Michael Crabtree” 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.