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CeeDee Lamb

CTL-E-5925 · Person · other · 1999–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07170 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5925.

CeeDee Lamb, born Cedarian DeLeon Lamb on 8 April 1999 in Opelousas, Louisiana, is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. His family relocated to the Houston area after Hurricane Katrina, and he starred at Foster High School in Richmond, Texas, before playing at the University of Oklahoma, where he was a consensus All-American in 2019. Dallas selected him 17th overall in the 2020 NFL Draft and gave him the franchise's storied No. 88 jersey. He has been selected to the Pro Bowl in five of his first six seasons. His peak year to date was 2023, when he led the NFL with 135 receptions and set a Cowboys franchise record with 1,749 receiving yards, earning first-team All-Pro honors. In August 2024 he signed a four-year, $136 million extension with Dallas. Early in the 2026 season he remained the Cowboys' No. 1 receiver, and on 4 October 2026 he caught 17 passes for 189 yards, including the game-winning touchdown, in a 34–30 win at Houston; through five games he had 39 receptions for 507 yards and four touchdowns.

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CeeDee Lamb, born Cedarian DeLeon Lamb on 8 April 1999 in Opelousas, Louisiana, is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. His family relocated to the Houston area after Hurricane Katrina, and he starred at Foster High School in Richmond, Texas, before playing at the University of Oklahoma, where he was a consensus All-American in 2019. Dallas selected him 17th overall in the 2020 NFL Draft and gave him the franchise's storied No. 88 jersey.

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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 CeeDee Lamb entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5925 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1072 (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 NFL wide receiver. Vital status: LIVING — Dallas Cowboys No. 1 receiver in the 2026 season, with 39 receptions for 507 yards and 4 touchdowns in five games through Week 5, 2026 (Cowboys official career page, accessed 2026-10-16). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): led the NFL with 135 receptions and a franchise-record 1,749 yards in 2023; career totals at Week 5, 2026: 610 receptions, 7,923 yards, 45 touchdowns in 100 games; 17-catch, 189-yard game at Houston on 4 October 2026 (Cowboys; Wikipedia) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (Cowboys team and press photography of Lamb 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-5925-ceedee-lamb.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 )

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