Doug Williams

CTL-E-5870 · Person · other · 1955–present

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Combined Graph record U-07123 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5870.

Doug Williams (born August 9, 1955, in Zachary, Louisiana) is a former National Football League quarterback whose name is fixed to one of the landmark performances in American sports. At Grambling State University, playing for coach Eddie Robinson, he guided the Tigers to a 36-7 record as a four-year starter, won three Southwestern Athletic Conference championships, was twice named Black College Player of the Year, and finished fourth in the 1977 Heisman Trophy voting. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected him 17th overall in the 1978 NFL Draft, and he led Tampa Bay to the first three playoff appearances in team history. After two seasons in the USFL, he joined Washington in 1986. In Super Bowl XXII, on January 31, 1988, Williams threw for 340 yards and four touchdowns — all four in a single quarter — as Washington beat Denver 42-10. He was named Super Bowl MVP and became the first Black quarterback to both start and win a Super Bowl. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001, he later coached Grambling State and became a Washington team executive.

The record

• Also known as: Douglas Lee Williams

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 8; first Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Doug Williams entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5870 free. Subtype is 'other': the schema's Person subtype list carries no 'athlete' value. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan tail tranche (ranked survivors beyond the ledger's 300-sample), corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #315. The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — the first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl is a canonical figure of Black American achievement history. VITAL STATUS: Living — born August 9, 1955 (African American Registry); current executive activity documented in 2024 (promotion to senior advisor, Black Enterprise) and in the Washington Commanders' current staff listings as carried in his career record. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Super Bowl XXII (January 31, 1988): 340 passing yards and four touchdown passes, all four in the second quarter, in Washington's 42-10 win over Denver; Super Bowl MVP (Washington Commanders team history). College: 36-7 record as Grambling State's four-year starter with three SWAC championships (African American Registry). MEDIA: Map N/A (Person record). Visual HELD — candidate: a Super Bowl XXII game photograph of Doug Williams (January 31, 1988), unverified at file-page level. Chart FILLED (Career timeline). Video HELD. Audio HELD. 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 (Person record: maps attach to specific places; no single map spec is staged for a person in this pass.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audio with a verified rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Referenced by

• Eddie Robinson — collaborated with → this record
• Grambling State University — has alumnus → this record

Sources

• Washington Commanders, "Redskins Promote Doug Williams To Senior Vice President Of Player Personnel" (commanders.com) — supports the 1978 first-round selection by Tampa Bay, the first three Tampa Bay playoff appearances, the USFL interval, and the Super Bowl XXII line of 340 yards, four touchdowns and MVP honors — https://www.commanders.com/news/redskins-promote-doug-williams-to-senior-vice-president-of-player-perso-18955008 (build store)
• African American Registry, "Doug Williams, Football, Player, and Administrator born" — supports the August 9, 1955 birth in Zachary, Louisiana, the Grambling record and honors under Eddie Robinson, and the Super Bowl XXII first — https://aaregistry.org/story/doug-williams-football-player-and-administrator-born/ (build store)
• Wikipedia, "Doug Williams (quarterback)" — supports the career chronology, the College Football Hall of Fame induction in 2001, the Grambling head-coaching tenure, and his continuing Washington executive role — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Williams_(quarterback) (build store)
• Black Enterprise, "Doug Williams Promoted by NFL's Washington Commanders" (2024) — supports his promotion to senior advisor to the general manager, evidencing his current executive standing — https://www.blackenterprise.com/doug-williams-promoted-senior-advisor/amp/ (build store)

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