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Frank Moreau

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5488519 ↗
Source-derived summary

Franklin H. Moreau (born September 9, 1976) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs and Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Chiefs in the fourth round of the 2000 NFL draft after playing college football for the Louisville Cardinals. He was also a member of the Houston Texans and New England Patriots but did not appear in any games for either team.

Early life

Moreau was born on September 9, 1976, in Pineville, Louisiana. He played high school football at Central Hardin High School in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He rushed for 1,514 yards and 11 touchdowns his senior year, including a (since broken) single-game school record of 291 yards. Moreau also earned all-state honors that year and was named to the Kentucky-Tennessee All-Star Game.

College career

Moreau played college football for the Louisville Cardinals from 1995 to 1999. After a series of injuries to the team's running backs, Moreau saw significant playing time during the final five games of the 1995 season, rushing 96 times for 416 yards and two touchdowns. He earned the starting job to begin the 1996 season but suffered a season-ending knee injury during the first game.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Frank Moreau” is american football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Frank, Moreau 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—1976, 2000, 1995, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-09-09. For this dossier, Frank, Moreau and American is the immediate research focus.
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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 May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5488519. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2000, 1995 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Moreau” 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.