player vs person

player and person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
player	Yes	No	No	No
person	Yes	No	No	No

player (noun)	person (noun)
a theatrical performer	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a person who participates in or is skilled at some game	a human body (usually including the clothing)
someone who plays a music as a profession	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
someone who takes part in an activity