Donovan McNabb

CTL-E-6256 · Person · other · 1976–present; NFL career 1999–2011

PROVISIONAL evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07447 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6256.

Donovan Jamal McNabb is a former American football quarterback born November 25, 1976, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Chicago, he attended Mount Carmel High School, where he helped the team win the 1991 state championship as a sophomore and a Chicago Prep Bowl championship as a senior. At Syracuse University he started every game after redshirting in 1994, was named Big East Offensive Player of the Year three times from 1996 to 1998, and also played as a reserve on the Syracuse basketball team. The Philadelphia Eagles selected him second overall in the 1999 NFL draft. As the Eagles' starting quarterback from 1999 to 2009 he led the team to eight playoff appearances, five NFC Championship Games, and Super Bowl XXXIX, and became the franchise leader in passing yards, passing touchdowns, attempts, and completions. He spent one season each with Washington in 2010 and Minnesota in 2011, was selected to six Pro Bowls, and was inducted into the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame in 2013, when the team retired his number 5.

The record

• Also known as: Donovan Jamal McNabb

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 7 — 747 Program, FINAL Wave 13; seventh Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): Gate A CLEAR (hand-checked 2026-10-16): no Donovan McNabb entity, alias, or variant in the live graph (3,910 entities). ID CTL-E-6256 free at staging. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger — Tier 4 corpus scan tail, corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked #2791. The scan supplied the name string only; every fact is sourced under CTL-GOV-004. SCOPE GATE: Chicago-born and Chicago-raised Black quarterback; a Mount Carmel product who became one of the defining Black quarterbacks of his NFL era — Black Chicago first applies directly. Vital status: LIVING — born November 25, 1976 (both opened sources, accessed 2026-10-16); retired player, with no report of death in the opened sources. STATISTICS — Career statistics (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16): 37,276 passing yards, 234 touchdown passes against 117 interceptions, 59.0 percent completions, 85.6 passer rating, 3,459 rushing yards and 29 rushing touchdowns; six Pro Bowl selections (2000–2004, 2009). CONFLICTS SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: the main Wikipedia record gives a 13-season NFL career and five NFC Championship Games, while Simple Wikipedia gives 12 seasons and, in its narrative, six NFC Championship games; the description follows the main record's 13 seasons and five championship games, and career totals agree across both opened sources. TIER GAP: No authoritative institutional source (Philadelphia Eagles, NFL, Syracuse University, or Pro Football Reference) was opened and read in this batch; both opened sources are Wikipedia-family pages, so the record caps at Provisional under CTL-GOV-004 until one authoritative source is opened. MEDIA: photo HELD (named candidate only; no license claimed — PHOTO-001 verification deferred); chart staged in media_specs; video HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map (shorts-link-map-2026-10-15.json, 233 rows, checked by name and variants, 2026-10-16); no near-miss title found.); audio HELD (HELD: No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging.); map N/A (person/work/event 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 (Person records carry no map slot; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (Created for this packet (CTL graphic, CTL-PHOTO-001 lane) from the record's sourced facts.) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map (shorts-link-map-2026-10-15.json, 233 rows, checked by nam) | audio = HELD (No rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged; audio slot held pending a CTL-PHOTO-001-consistent rights basi)

Sources

• Wikipedia, Donovan McNabb (accessed 2026-10-16) — born November 25, 1976, Chicago; Mount Carmel High School; Syracuse, three-time Big East Offensive Player of the Year; selected second overall in the 1999 NFL draft by Philadelphia; Eagles starter 1999–2009, eight playoff appearances, five NFC Championship Games, Super Bowl XXXIX; franchise leader in passing yards, touchdowns, attempts and completions; Washington 2010, Minnesota 2011; six Pro Bowls; Eagles Hall of Fame 2013; career 37,276 passing yards, 234 touchdown passes — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb (build store)
• Simple Wikipedia, Donovan McNabb (accessed 2026-10-16) — born November 25, 1976, Chicago; Mount Carmel High School; Syracuse; 1999 draft, first round, second pick; Philadelphia Eagles 1999–2009, Washington Redskins 2010, Minnesota Vikings 2011; six Pro Bowls; career 37,276 passing yards, 234 touchdown passes, 3,459 rushing yards — https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb (build store)

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