Shannon Sharpe

CTL-E-6102 · Person · other · 1990–2003

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07322 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6102.

Shannon Sharpe is a former professional football tight end and broadcaster. The Denver Broncos selected him out of Savannah State in the seventh round of the 1990 NFL Draft. He retired fourteen seasons later as the all-time leader in catches, yards and touchdowns by a tight end, with final career numbers of 815 receptions for 10,060 yards and 62 touchdowns in 204 regular-season games. He earned eight Pro Bowl selections and was named first-team All-Pro four times, in 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998, and to the NFL All-Decade Team of the 1990s. He was the starting tight end in Denver's back-to-back Super Bowl titles, XXXII and XXXIII, and in the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl XXXV victory, after two seasons with Baltimore between his Denver tenures. In 2001 he surpassed Ozzie Newsome to become the NFL record holder for receptions and receiving yards by a tight end. After retirement he worked as a television analyst, co-hosted Skip and Shannon: Undisputed from 2016 to 2023, and joined ESPN's First Take in 2023. He hosts the podcasts Club Shay Shay and Nightcap. ESPN parted ways with Sharpe in July 2025, and he continued hosting his podcasts thereafter.

The record

• Also known as: Shannon Goad Sharpe

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 11; fourth Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Shannon Sharpe entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias match + token containment; CLEAR). ID CTL-E-6102 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 3 packet ordered reserve, position 17 of 35 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1665). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — National canon record under PPL-001 (sports and broadcasting); not a Chicago record — included after the Chicago-first records in this wave's canon tier. Vital status: Living. Born June 26, 1968 (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16); reporting in July 2025 documented his ESPN departure and continued podcast hosting, and February 2026 reporting described him discussing a possible ESPN reunion, confirming he was living and active in 2025–2026. STATISTICS — STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Pro Football Hall of Fame (accessed 2026-10-16): 815 receptions, 10,060 receiving yards, 62 touchdowns, 204 regular-season games, eight Pro Bowls, four first-team All-Pro selections (1993, 1996, 1997, 1998). The Hall notes all three career tight-end marks have since been surpassed. MEDIA: photo HELD (Shannon Sharpe's Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement portrait, Canton, 2011 — specific image to be verified in a later PHOTO-001 pass; no license claimed. — named candidate only; file-level rights verification per CTL-PHOTO-001 still required; no license claimed); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6102-shannon-sharpe.svg); video HELD (near-miss documented in the media block — a CTL Short treats a related but distinct entity); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map N/A (person record). 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 (Persons carry no map in the packet standard.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged. NEAR-MISS DOCUMENTED: Short #72 'Shanno) | audio = HELD (No rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged.)

Sources

• Pro Football Hall of Fame, "Shannon Sharpe" (accessed 2026-10-16) — 1990 seventh-round selection by Denver from Savannah State; 815 receptions, 10,060 yards, 62 touchdowns; eight Pro Bowls; four first-team All-Pro selections; Super Bowls XXXII, XXXIII and XXXV; 2001 record surpassing Ozzie Newsome — https://www.profootballhof.com/players/shannon-sharpe (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Shannon Sharpe" (accessed 2026-10-16) — born June 26, 1968; 14 NFL seasons primarily with Denver; Pro Football Hall of Fame induction in 2011; CBS analyst; Undisputed 2016–2023; Club Shay Shay and Nightcap; First Take until 2025 — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Sharpe (build store)
• Urban Magazine, "Shannon Sharpe Departs ESPN Following Settlement in $50 Million Sexual Assault Lawsuit" (accessed 2026-10-16) — ESPN parted ways in July 2025 after a civil lawsuit settlement announced July 18, 2025 and dismissal; Sharpe continued Club Shay Shay and Nightcap — https://www.urbanmag-online.com/shannon-sharpe-departs-espn-following-settlement-in-50-million-sexual-assault-lawsuit/ (build store)

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