:Barney Chavous

{{Short description|American football player (born 1951)}}

{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Barney Chavous

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| number = 79

| position = Defensive end

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|3|22|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.

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| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 252

| college = South Carolina State

| draftyear = 1973

| draftround = 2

| draftpick = 36

| pastteams =

• Denver Broncos ({{NFL Year|1973|1985}})

| highlights =

• First-team Little All-American (1972)

| statlabel1 = Sacks

| statvalue1 = 75.0

| statlabel2 = Fumble recoveries

| statvalue2 = 8

| statlabel3 = Safeties

| statvalue3 = 1

| pfr = C/ChavBa20

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Barney Lewis Chavous ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|tʃ|eɪ|v|ʌ|s}} {{respell|CHAY|vuhs}};[https://media.denverbroncos.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1977.pdf Denver Broncos 1977 Media Guide (pronunciations on page 141).] Retrieved June 8, 2020 born March 22, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for South Carolina State Bulldogs. He was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team defensive end on the 1972 Little All-America college football team.{{cite news|title=UC Davis QB Is Little All-American|newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel|date=December 6, 1972|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89272815/uc-davis-qb-is-little-all-american/|via=Newspapers.com}} He was selected by the Broncos in the second round of the 1973 NFL draft

He played his entire NFL career with the Broncos from 1973 to 1985. He ranks third on the Broncos' all-time sacks list with 75 and is tied with Tom Jackson for third in Broncos' career starts with 177.

Chavous was the head football coach at T. W. Josey High School in Augusta, Georgia. Chavous is the uncle of former Minnesota Vikings cornerback Corey Chavous.

Now he works as a team sports coach at Tutt Middle school in Augusta, Georgia.