Jason Taylor

CTL-E-5917 · Person · other · 1974–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07162 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5917.

Jason Taylor, born Jason Paul Taylor on 1 September 1974 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a retired American football defensive end whose fifteen-season career was anchored by the Miami Dolphins. A lightly recruited player who starred at the University of Akron, where he set a school record with 21 career sacks, he was selected by Miami in the third round, 73rd overall, of the 1997 NFL Draft and became a starter as a rookie. He anchored Miami's defense for more than a decade, led the NFL with 18.5 sacks in 2002, and in 2006 was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year. After single seasons with Washington in 2008 and the New York Jets in 2010, each followed by a return to Miami, he retired after the 2011 season with 139.5 career sacks. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017, in his first year of eligibility, and has coached at the University of Miami since 2022, serving as the Hurricanes' defensive ends and rush coach from 2023 into the 2026 season.

The record

• Also known as: Jason Paul Taylor

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jason Taylor entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5917 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1054 (Football Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American defensive figure and Pro Football Hall of Famer. Vital status: LIVING — coaching the Miami Hurricanes' defensive line in spring practice ahead of the 2026 season and on the Hurricanes staff during the 2026 season (Sports Illustrated; 247Sports staff coverage, October 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 139.5 career sacks over 15 seasons; NFL sacks leader in 2002 with 18.5; NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2006; six Pro Bowl selections; 131 sacks as a Dolphin, the franchise record (Pro Football Hall of Fame; Jason Taylor Foundation) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (Pro Football Hall of Fame and Wikimedia Commons photography of Taylor exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5917-jason-taylor.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). 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 records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | 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 CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Relationships

• Miami Dolphins — played for
  Jason Taylor played for the Miami Dolphins in 1997–2007, 2009 and 2011 — thirteen seasons in Miami, with a franchise-record 131 sacks as a Dolphin — within a fifteen-season career that also included Washington (2008) and the New York Jets (2010).

Sources

• Pro Football Hall of Fame, "Jason Taylor" — drafted in the third round, 73rd overall, by the Miami Dolphins in 1997; Akron school-record 21 career sacks; 139.5 career sacks; NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2006 after leading the league with 18.5 sacks in 2002; brief stints with Washington (2008) and the New York Jets (2010) — https://www.profootballhof.com/players/jason-taylor (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Jason Taylor (American football)" — born Jason Paul Taylor, 1 September 1974, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dolphins tenures 1997–2007, 2009 and 2011; retired after 2011; coaching at Miami (FL) from 2022, defensive ends / rush coach from 2023 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Taylor_(American_football) (build store)
• Sports Illustrated, "Miami's Jason Taylor Embarks on a New Adventure Without His Two Star Pass Rushers" — Taylor working as the Miami Hurricanes' defensive line coach in spring practice ahead of the 2026 season; vital-status and current-role evidence — https://www.si.com/college/miami/football/miami-s-jason-taylor-embarks-on-a-new-adventure-without-his-two-star-pass-rushers (build store)

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