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Zack Williams (American football)

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ4023615 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zachary Williams (born December 27, 1988) is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL draft. He played college football for the Washington State Cougars.

On February 18, 2014, Williams was assigned to the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League.

On January 30, 2015, Williams was traded to the Las Vegas Outlaws for Claim Order Position.

On November 9, 2015, Williams was assigned to the Arizona Rattlers. He was placed on reassignment on February 22, 2016.

On March 21, 2016, Williams was assigned to the Los Angeles KISS. On March 30, 2016, Williams was placed on recallable reassignment.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zack Williams (American football)” is american football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zack, Williams 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—1988, 2011, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-12-27. For this dossier, Zack, Williams and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american football player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4023615. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2011, 2014 and 2015.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Zack Williams (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.