Barney Bussey
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Position: | Safety |
Personal information | |
Born: | Lincolnton, Georgia, U.S. | May 20, 1962
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) |
Career information | |
College: | South Carolina State |
NFL draft: | 1984 / Round: 5 / Pick: 119 |
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Career NFL statistics | |
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Barney Bussey (born May 20, 1962) is a former American football safety.
Bussey was born in Lincolnton, Georgia. He attended high school at Lincoln County High School in Lincolnton where he was a major reason behind Lincoln County's defensive success in the late 1970s. Bussey played both offense and defense. In 1979, he was named to the Class AA All-State team.
Bussey then attended South Carolina State University, where he became a Division I-AA All-American Defensive Back.
After college, Bussey was selected in the 1st round (8th overall) of the
Bussey then signed with the USFL Showboats on May 8, 1984, and spent two seasons with Memphis. He was a key member of a defensive unit that featured future Hall of Fame DE Reggie White and led the club to the USFL Semi-Finals in 1985.
After the USFL folded in August 1986, he went on to play ten seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the National Football League, recording 10 interceptions and 6 fumble recoveries.
Bussey is a supervisor at a manufacturing company and a volunteer assistant coach at