Deion Sanders

CTL-E-5779 · Person · other · 1967–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07042 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5779.

Deion Luwynn Sanders Sr. (born August 9, 1967, in Fort Myers, Florida) is an American football coach and former professional football and baseball player. At Florida State he won the 1988 Jim Thorpe Award, and the Atlanta Falcons selected him fifth overall in the 1989 NFL draft. Across fourteen NFL seasons with Atlanta, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington and Baltimore he recorded 53 interceptions, earned eight Pro Bowl selections and was named the 1994 NFL Defensive Player of the Year; he won Super Bowl XXIX with the 49ers and Super Bowl XXX with the Cowboys, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011. He also played nine Major League Baseball seasons, and is the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series, appearing in the 1992 World Series with Atlanta. As a coach he led Jackson State from 2020 to 2022, then became head coach at Colorado in 2023, where he coached his son Shedeur Sanders (CTL-E-5692) in 2023 and 2024 before Shedeur entered the 2025 NFL draft.

The record

• Also known as: Prime Time, Coach Prime, Deion Luwynn Sanders Sr.

Notes

STAGED 2026-10-16 (747 Program, Wave 7, Batch B) — not merged. Gate A: no match in the live graph (3,443 entities) at staging. Vital status: LIVING — verified as Colorado's active head coach in 2026-season coverage (Sports Illustrated/Yardbarker, October 2026); no tribute language. UNBLOCKING EDGE STAGED: CTL-E-5692 Shedeur Sanders child_of → Deion Sanders. BLOCKED (endpoints absent from the graph at staging): played_for → Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Washington, Baltimore Ravens — none exists in entities.json; Cleveland Browns (CTL-E-4336) is Shedeur's club and is deliberately NOT wired to Deion. Colorado and Jackson State head-coach facts are carried in prose; neither school team is a graph endpoint for a head_coach_of edge in this packet. Photo HELD (Commons candidate's license line not visible in the mirror read). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Teams, companies, labels and persons carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and i) | visual_assets = HELD: File:Deion Sanders.jpg — Wikimedia Commons (Flickr source, photographer ericifeng, 2008) | chart = FILLED (Built only from this record's own sourced facts.) | video = HELD (No entry in the Shorts Link Map catalog (shorts-link-map-2026-10-15.json, 233 rows, searched 2026-10-16) bills) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging.)

Referenced by

• Shedeur Sanders — child of → this record

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Deion Sanders' — born August 9, 1967; Florida State and the 1988 Jim Thorpe Award; fifth overall in the 1989 draft; 14 NFL seasons; Super Bowls XXIX and XXX; Hall of Fame 2011; Jackson State 2020–2022; Colorado head coach from 2023 (accessed October 2026) (build store)
• NCAA.com, September 21, 2020 — eight-time Pro Bowler and two-time Super Bowl champion; 14 NFL seasons for Atlanta, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington and Baltimore; the only player to have played in a Super Bowl and a World Series; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 (primary source · build store)
• San Francisco 49ers (49ers.com), '75 for 75: Neon Deion,' 2021 — Super Bowl XXIX interception in the 49ers' 49–26 win; inducted to the Pro Football and College Football Halls of Fame in 2011 (build store)
• Sports Illustrated, Colorado coverage, 2024–2026 — father-son seasons at Colorado 2023–2024, 13–12 together; Shedeur Sanders threw for 7,364 yards at Colorado and entered the 2025 NFL draft (build store)

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