Danny Talbott

{{Short description|American sportsman (1944–2020)}}

{{For|the British sprinter|Danny Talbot}}

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

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Danny Talbott

| image = Danny Talbott.jpeg

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| number = 10

| position = Quarterback

| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|11|1}}

| birth_place = Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|1|19|1944|11|1}}

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| high_school = Rocky Mount
(Rocky Mount, North Carolina)

| college = North Carolina

| draftyear = 1967

| draftround = 17

| draftpick = 432

| pastteams =

• Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|1968|1970}})*

| highlights =

• ACC Player of the Year (1965)
• First-team All-ACC (1965)
• North Carolina Tar Heels Jersey No. 10 honored
• North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

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Joseph Daniel Talbott (November 1, 1944 – January 19, 2020) was an American professional football and baseball player. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was a quarterback for two seasons with the North Carolina Tar Heels football team and was named the ACC Player of the Year in 1966.{{cite web |url=https://healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/priceless-gem/ |title=Priceless Gem |website=UNC Health Talk |date=January 6, 2015 |access-date=April 21, 2019}} Talbott also led the Tar Heels baseball team to the College World Series in 1966. He also played basketball for North Carolina on their freshmen team, but gave up the sport to concentrate on football and baseball. He was drafted in the 17th round of the 1967 NFL/AFL draft by the San Francisco 49ers, but did not sign a contract with the team and played baseball professionally in the Baltimore Orioles's minor league system instead.{{cite news |url=http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/News/2018/02/04/Cancer-center-name-an-honor-for-Talbott.html |last=Davis |first=Corey |title=Talbott honored, humbled by cancer center naming |newspaper=Rocky Mount Telegram |date=February 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422210359/http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/News/2018/02/04/Cancer-center-name-an-honor-for-Talbott.html|archive-date=April 22, 2019|url-status=dead}} His NFL draft rights were traded to the Washington Redskins for a 10th round draft pick on March 5, 1968,{{cite news |title=Redskins Get Quarterback Danny Talbott From 49ers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42972529/fort_lauderdale_news/ |newspaper=Fort Lauderdale News |via=Newspapers.com |date=March 5, 1968 |access-date=January 25, 2020}}{{cite news |author=Lloyd, Harry |title=Back To Football |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42972663/the_charlotte_observer/ |newspaper=The Charlotte Observer |via=Newspapers.com |date=May 10, 1968 |access-date=January 25, 2020}} but during training camp he was called into active service duty for the United States Army Reserve and missed the entire season.{{cite news |title='Skins' Talbott Called By Draft |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42973193/the_daily_timesnews/ |newspaper=The Daily Times-News |via=Newspapers.com |date=July 20, 1968 |access-date=January 25, 2020}} He spent the 1969 season on the Redskins' taxi squad, and was released during final roster cuts before the start of the 1970 season on August 10, 1970.{{cite news |title=Unitas, Two Other Colt Quarterbacks Hurt; Miami Releases Kentucky Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42973312/daily_press/ |newspaper=Daily Press |via=Newspapers.com |date=August 11, 1970 |access-date=January 25, 2020}}

Talbott was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. His No. 10 football jersey hangs in Kenan Stadium along with other honored jerseys.{{cite web |url=https://keepingitheel.com/2017/05/01/unc-football-top-10-unc-tar-heels-quarterbacks-all-time/5/ |title=UNC Football: Top 10 Tar Heels Quarterbacks All-Time |website=Fansided |date=May 2017 |access-date=April 21, 2019}}

Talbott led the Rocky Mount Senior High School Blackbirds to winning 4A state championships in baseball, basketball, and football in his senior year in 1963. In 2018, the Danny Talbott Cancer Center at Nash UNC Health Care in Rocky Mount, North Carolina was named after him.

Talbott died at the age of 75 on January 19, 2020, of complications from cancer.{{cite news|title=Former UNC athlete Talbott dead of cancer at 75|date=January 20, 2020|newspaper=The Middletown Press|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Former-UNC-athlete-Talbott-dead-of-cancer-at-75-14989952.php|access-date=January 21, 2020|archive-date=February 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201072040/https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Former-UNC-athlete-Talbott-dead-of-cancer-at-75-14989952.php|url-status=dead}}