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Rob Kelly (American football)

American football player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7340267 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert James Kelly III (born June 21, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a safety for four seasons with the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL) and one on the injured reserve list for the New England Patriots. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Career

Kelly was selected in the second round of the 1997 NFL draft with the 33rd overall pick. Kelly retired from football in 2002 and age 28, after he sustained an injury during training camp to a nerve between his neck and shoulder.

References

External links

DeVito, Maria (February 9, 2018). "Newark Catholic's Rob Kelly: Game of football is too violent to play". The Newark Advocate.

Editorial summary

“Rob Kelly (American football)” enters the record as american football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kelly, American and football 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—1974, 1997, 2002, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-06-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kelly, American and football.
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Why this record matters

“Rob Kelly (American football)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kelly, American and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7340267. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1997, 2002 and 2018.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rob Kelly (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.