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Minkah Fitzpatrick

American football player (born 1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ26132256
Source-derived summary

Minkah Annane Fitzpatrick Jr. (born November 17, 1996) is an American professional football safety for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft. He has also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Early life

Fitzpatrick attended St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he played high school football for the Marauders. He was a wide receiver on offense and a defensive back on defense. In 2014, he caught 45 passes for 1,111 yards and 12 touchdowns, while recording 70 tackles and three interceptions on defense. He also ran track. He placed first at the Hudson County Championships with times of 10.86 seconds and 21.66 seconds in the 100 and 200 meters, respectively.

Editorial summary

“Minkah Fitzpatrick” enters the record as american football player (born 1996). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Minkah, Fitzpatrick and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1996, 2018, 2014—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1996-11-04, 1996-11-17—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Minkah, Fitzpatrick and American.
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Why this record matters

“Minkah Fitzpatrick” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Minkah, Fitzpatrick and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26132256. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2018 and 2014.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from Minkah Fitzpatrick” 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.