Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Bell (American football)

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 23:07, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Henry Bell (American football)

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... that despite having never played college football, Henry Bell was able to make the roster of the NFL's Denver Broncos and served as one of the team's starting running backs in their inaugural season? Source: Denver Broncos website and Pro-Football-Reference.com (for part about being a starter)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KUCV (2/2)

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:54, 27 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Henry Bell (American football); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: DYKCheck shows it to have been expanded 5x within 7 days of nomination and to be compliant RE length, WP:EARWIG shows no copyvios. I think it's good to go (Although for the record this is one of my first DYK reviews so I may well be wrong / am open to correction.) Bravo, BeanieFan11. Maximilian775 (talk)

@Maximilian775: Thanks for the review. I did notice one issue, in that you marked qpq as done when I had listed it as "pending"; but now I've done Template:Did you know nominations/KUCV as my QPQ. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:46, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

@Maximilian775 and BeanieFan11: The line for the hook is : "Despite having never played college football, Bell was able to make the Broncos' final roster; he was one of only six players active in either the AFL or National Football League (NFL) that season to have never played collegiately" but citations 6 and 7 do not support the sentence. Bruxton (talk) 22:16, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

@Bruxton: Yes they do: citation six verifies him as being on the team during the regular season – you can't not make the team but be on the team in the regular season; and citation seven is PFR's list of NFL/AFL players who did not go college – if you click on the column to the right of "Yrs," they will be ordered by date, and then you will see that only six players had careers that included 1960 who did not go to college. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:53, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

@BeanieFan11: Thank you for showing me how to find the college information. I saw that he made the team but the college claim was hard to verify with a link to a list. I was on an Easter egg hunt and now I have found the egg. Bruxton (talk) 23:06, 1 August 2023 (UTC)