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Taryn Christion

American gridiron football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ109078366
Source-derived summary

Taryn Christion (born February 6, 1997) is an American former professional football quarterback. He played college football at South Dakota State.

College career

Christion played for the South Dakota State Jackrabbits for four seasons. Christion finished his collegiate career with school records of 11,535 passing yards, 104 touchdown passes, 13,050 yard of total offense, 814 pass completions, and 1,363 pass attempts.

Professional career

Seattle Seahawks

Christion was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent on April 28, 2019. He was waived by the Seahawks on May 14, 2019.

Dallas Cowboys

Christion was signed by the Dallas Cowboys on July 24, 2019. He was waived during final roster cuts on August 31, 2019.

Pittsburgh Steelers

Christion was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers to their practice squad on October 2, 2019. He was signed specifically to imitate Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson in practice.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Taryn Christion” is american gridiron football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Taryn, Christion 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—1997, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-02-06. For this dossier, Taryn, Christion and American is the immediate research focus.
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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 Nov 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q109078366. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Taryn Christion” 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.