Given the question: Tristan Jackson (born March 5 1986 in Beaumont Mississippi) is a professional Canadian football defensive back who plays for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was signed as a street free agent by the Eskimos in 2008. He played college football for the Central Arkansas Bears. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
The answer is:
Athlete