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A fact from Patrick O'Connell (American football) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut on his birthday, in the only game he played that year?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Patrick O'Connell (American football).

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 22:48, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut and had his first career tackle on his birthday? Source: Daily Inter Lake
- ALT1: ... that that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut on his birthday, which was the only game he played that year? Source: Inter Lake ref plus PFR, which says he only played one game - the Seahawks are now done for the season as they missed the playoffs and thus he cannot play anymore games
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jin Hao (swimmer)

Created by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:57, 8 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Patrick O'Connell (American football); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Long enough. New enough. Well written with reliable inline citations throughout. Copyright violation very unlikely per Earwig. A couple of issues remain:

Can you double-check the data under "Professional career"? For example, his height 1.86 m isn't supported by the cited source. Another source in the article, PFR site gives 1.85 m.
Issue 2: QPQ still needed. Hybernator (talk) 05:03, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hybernator: I added a QPQ and changed the height to 1.85 instead of 1.85; someone else added that table, but everything else appears to check out in the source. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:04, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

issues addressed. I prefer the main hook, which is properly cited. GTG. Hybernator (talk) 02:41, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]