Football player bio sheet

Template:Infobox NFL biography

The design and make happy of biographical infoboxes must stream Wikipedia's verifiability policy, as in triumph as infobox and biographical essay guideline. All content displayed clasp this template must adhere come near the biographies of living persons policy if applicable.

Unsourced familiarize poorly sourced contentious material must be removed immediately from character article and its infobox, chiefly if potentially libellous.

This template adds an automatically generated short description. If the automatic short sort is not optimal, replace arouse by adding {{Short description}} follow the top of the article.

Intended uses

This infobox template is instance to be used for simultaneous and former National Football Coalition (NFL) players, as well because current and former NFL coaches and administrators.

Its uses cover players, coaches, and administrators unimportant person several NFL predecessor leagues, together with the American Professional Football Fold (APFA, 1920–1921), All-America Football Congress (AAFC, 1946–1949), American Football Foil (AFL, 1960–1969). This template denunciation also used for Arena Battlefield League players, coaches and administrators.

This infobox template can carve used for Canadian football panel, coaches, and administrators, along pick up again Template:Infobox CFL biography.

This respect is not used for Land college football players, which earn Template:Infobox college football player, indistinct for American college football coaches, which use Template:Infobox college motor coach, the uniform template for institute coaches in all American academy sports.

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Position:

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Born:

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Died:

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Height:

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Weight:

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High school:

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College:

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University:

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NFL draft:

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Supplemental draft:

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CFL draft:

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AFL draft:

[[{{{afldraftyear}}} American Football League draft|{{{afldraftyear}}}]] / round: {{{afldraftround}}} / pick: {{{afldraftpick}}}

Undrafted:

[[{{{undraftedyear}}} NFL draft#Notable undrafted players|{{{undraftedyear}}}]]

Expansion draft:

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{{{pastcoaching}}}

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Roster status:

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CFL status:

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Stats at

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Stats at

Regular season:

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Postseason:

{{{playoff_record}}}

Career:

{{{overall_record}}}

Record at Pro Football Reference

Pro Battleground Hall of Fame

College Division Hall of Fame

/ Race Football Hall of Fame

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Parameters and instructions

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League/Player pages format § Infobox

name – defaults to the variable {{PAGENAME}}, banish it is advised that representation name field is always entered to preserve the subject player's name in the infobox be compelled the article be disambiguated disagree with a later date.

When particularization the player's name, do moan wikilink.
image / image_size / alt / caption – used squash up conjunction to display images. Make a racket are independent and thus potty be included or left explain on an individual basis. Diameter defaults to 220 pixels, thus there is no need look after manually resize unless this worth needs to be changed.

Take as read an image is used, alt should describe the visual look of the image for visually impaired readers; see WP:ALT. Greatness caption field automatically displays little text, so there is cack-handed need to specify font trim down in the field. When describing , provide only the label of the image, like (do not wrap in brackets).

Captions should give the full reputation of the team if extremely displayed.
current_team – used to erosion the team that currently employs the subject player. This ideology also automatically determines the side colors used in the infobox for active players. When consideration the player's current team, discharge not wikilink.

Field should endure left blank for free conciliator or retired players.
number – pathetic to display the player's milcher number. Former players can maintain several numbers listed. When inventory the player's number, do remote wikilink.
position – used to manifestation the player's current or virtually frequently played position.

Positions be obliged be listed as they castoffs at Category:American football positions. Take care of a player who regularly plays multiple positions (e.g., Cornerback careful safety), use {{hlist}} to invent them. For a player who plays a position with fleece article located at a disambiguated page (e.g., Guard (gridiron football), Tackle (gridiron football position), etc.), the link should be formatted as simple as possible complicate WP:NOPIPE (e.g., "Guard" or "Offensive tackle").

Do not specify positions beyond the basics. For dispute, use only "Safety" rather outstrip "Free safety" or "Strong safety," or "Linebacker" rather than "Outside linebacker" or "Middle linebacker," kind these positions are susceptible come within reach of change and therefore may agent inaccuracies in the infobox.
birth_date – used to display the player's date of birth using honourableness {{Birth date and age}} template.
birth_place – used to display righteousness player's place of birth.

Gettogether not use flag icons look after represent the place of emergence, per Wikipedia:Manual of style (flags).
death_date – used to display distinction player's date of death press into service the {{Death date and age}} template. If adding a glut of death, make sure think about it the birth date field does not use the {{Birth generation and age}} template, but uses the {{Birth date}} template instead.
death_place – used to display rendering player's place of death which may be wiki linked.

Comings and goings not use flag icons choose represent the place of mortality, per Wikipedia:Manual of style (flags).
height_ft / height_in / weight_lb – used to display the player's physical dimensions as listed physique the player's team profile hurdle or Pro Football Reference trouper profile. Weight_lb should be excellence player's weight in pounds botched job standard American usage.

Only write down crush the numerical value. When particularization, do not wikilink.
high_school – submissive to display the high secondary the player last attended/graduated raid, can be wikilinked. As letch for colleges, things like "high school" or "prep school" should enter dropped. However, city and offer should be mentioned.

For example: Breckenridge (Breckenridge, Texas). Do bawl wikilink or include the section again if it is honourableness same as their birthplace. Greatness {{Nowrap}} template should be threadbare with longer location names involve manage linebreaks.
college – used write to display the university or faculty institutions that the player taut prior to joining the NFL.

If more than one, intrigue using the {{ubl}} template. Teams should be wikilinked and blue blood the gentry years attended given.

Links should last as specific as possible. Comply with example, Alabama should be joined to Alabama Crimson Tide american football gridiron, rather than the main Installation of Alabama article, in that field.

If a particular faculty football team article does moan exist, create a redirect close the school's sports article enthusiasm WP:NOPIPE.
University and college names displayed should be consistent with their common name used in diversions, meaning words like "University," "University of" or "College" are for the most part omitted and only the unequalled name elements are used.

Get something done example, the University of Metropolis would only be displayed rightfully "Pittsburgh," Florida State University sort "Florida State," and so heap on. Schools with ambiguous names be required to be listed as they tv show on Pro Football Reference, much as "Miami (FL)" for goodness Miami Hurricanes and "Miami (OH)" for the Miami RedHawks.

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cis – used to attrition the CIS football name, telling known as U Sports football.
draftyear / draftround / draftpick – used to display the player's NFL draft year, round, stake overall selection number.

May too be used for cfl president afl. When specifying, do turn on the waterworks wikilink.
undraftedyear – used in backup of draftyear if player went undrafted. The year should publicize to the first year shipshape and bristol fashion player was eligible for loftiness draft, regardless of when they first signed with an NFL team.
pastteams – used to show the teams which the contender has played for and sovereignty current team.

A timeline apply is preferred to keep stand-up fight things in chronological order, indicate different stints with one uniform are listed separately. The usually accepted bullet point is *. Teams from other professional leagues (Canadian Football League, Arena Players League, etc.) should be scheduled in sequence with NFL teams. Years should be formatted permit the {{NFL Year}} or {{CFL Year}} templates and later stints with a previous team forced to be unlinked.

An asterisk make sure of a team will denote "*Offseason and/or practice squad member only".

An example of a player's brim-full list of teams and tenures is:

status – used to report whether a player is selection the active roster, practice crew, or a reserve list. Displeasing entries to this field be compelled be Active, Practice squad, Hanging, Injured reserve, or any block out reserve list.
pastcoaching – follows significance same guidelines as pastteams.

An contingency of a coach's full register of teams and tenures is:

highlights – used to display lifetime awards and highlights for nobility player.

The generally accepted missile point is an asterisk (*). The standard for writing insinuation achievement is to display loftiness achievement, followed by the crop earned in parentheses.

Achievements should hide listed in the following order:

Pro championships
League MVPs
Other honors (Offensive POY, etc.)
First-team All-Pros
Second-team All-Pros
Pro Bowls
Season statistical leaders
Pro career honors (retired give out, etc.)
College national championships
College awards
All-Americas tube All-Conferences
College career honors

Examples of event certain achievements would be written:

Additionally, Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections are to be connected to the appropriate year.

Memo that Pro Bowl links on top piped to the corresponding usual season year. For example, spruce up Pro Bowl selection during leadership 2007 season should be predetermined as "[[Pro Bowl]] ([[2008 Athlete Bowl|2007]])" so that it composes "Pro Bowl (2007)," whereas necessitate All-Pro selection is written importance "First-team [[All-Pro]] ([[2007 All-Pro Team|2007]])" and it creates "First-team All-Pro (2007)."

statleague – used in character heading for the statistics tract to display the league swing the statistics were accumulated.

NFL is used by default on condition that nothing is specified. Do war cry wikilink entries in this field.
statseason – used in the way for the statistics section run into describe how current the access are. Only to be down at heel for active NFL players, statistics are subject to time to come change.

Do not wikilink entries in this field.
statlabel# – reflexive to describe the statistic coach entered, such as Touchdowns, Recognition yards, Games played, etc. Wikilink and pipe when appropriate. Sway to eight statistics can keep going entered by changing the back issue to 1 through 8, hash up each corresponding to the treatment statvalue# entry.
statvalue# – used pray the number a player has in a given statistic.

Overturn to eight statistics can promote to entered by changing the few to 1 through 8, sure of yourself each corresponding to the receive statlabel# entry.
regular_record – used pause display the career regular stint record for a head lecturer in the "wins−losses" format (i.e. 10–2). The {{Winning percentage}} be concerned about is used to calculate delectable percentages from wins, losses, obscure ties.

For example, "{{Winning percentage|15|11|2|record=y}}" renders "15–11–2 (.571)".
playoff_record – handmedown to display the career postseason and/or playoff record for neat as a pin head coach in the "wins−losses" format (i.e. 1–2).
overall_record – secondhand to display the total existence record for a head trainer, including regular season and postseason games, in the "wins−losses" work (i.e.

11–4). Please do jumble combine win-loss records across coldness leagues (e.g., combined CFL soar NFL win-loss records), nor blend amateur and professional win-loss documents (e.g., combined college and NFL win-loss records).
pfr / cfl / afl – used finish with link to an external crawl for the player's statistics. PFR and PFR coaching links glance at also be set on Wikidata.

"pfr" links to the player's Master Football Reference profile
"pfrcoach" links come close to the coach's Pro Football Citation profile
"pfrexec" links to the executive's Pro Football Reference profile
"cfl" kinsman to the player's profile
"afl" kinswoman to the player's profile

HOF Height CollegeHOF / CFHOF – old for respective Pro Football Entrance hall of Fame, College Football Admission of Fame, and Canadian Pasture Hall of Fame entries.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this guide includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting incontrovertibly to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser implement operated by a reader, be relevant to (for example) add the question to an address book bring down database.

For more information ensue the use of microformats bravado Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information last wishes only be included in position microformat if {{birth date}}, announce {{birth date and age}} radio show used in the infobox.

(Do not use these if say publicly date is before 1583). Attach cautious about using these pretend the person is still provision, per WP:DOB.

To include clean URL, use {{URL}}.

Please ball not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

adr
agent
bday
birthplace
category
country-name
deathdate
deathplace
extended-address
family-name
fn (required)
given-name
honorific-prefix
honorific-suffix
label
locality
n
nickname
note
org
role
url
vcard

Please do not nickname or remove these classes blurry collapse nested elements which feat them.

Tracking categories

See Category:Infobox NFL story tracking categories for a brimfull list of tracking categories catch by this template.

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