Darryl Talley

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Darryl Talley
refer to caption
Talley (left) and Oliver Luck celebrate
West Virginia's 1981 Peach Bowl victory
No. 56, 99, 55
Position:Linebacker
Personal information
Born: (1960-07-10) July 10, 1960 (age 63)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Height:6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:235 lb (107 kg)
Career information
High school:East Cleveland (OH) Shaw
College:West Virginia
NFL draft:1983 / Round: 2 / Pick: 39
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Tackles:1,252
Defensive touchdowns:
2
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Darryl Victor Talley (born July 10, 1960) is an American former professional

Super Bowls
with the Bills.

College career

Talley played college football at

fullback and linebacker at Shaw High School in East Cleveland, never settling on either position. He also missed his last seven high school games with a broken ankle
.

Talley was a starter from 1979 to 1982 and led the Mountaineers to the

punt and returned it for a touchdown. As a senior in 1982, he was selected as West Virginia's third-ever consensus All-American. He started the season off with a win over Oklahoma and was named WVU's season MVP and was named All-American. He also played in the 1983 Hula Bowl
.

Legacy

Talley's five tackles-for-a-loss against Penn State stand as a single-game record and his personal-best 15 tackles against Boston College won Sports Illustrated Player of the Week honors. For his career, he had 282 unassisted tackles (first all-time), 202 assisted tackles (second), 28 tackles-for-loss (second) and 19 sacks (fourth). During his four-year career, he recorded a school record of 484 career tackles; which has been passed by Grant Wiley.[1]

Talley was named to the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame ballot for nominees for induction, and was inducted in 2011[2] He is also a member of the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame.[2]

Professional career

Talley played in the

Super Bowls. He never missed a game in his 12-years with the Buffalo Bills. Jim Kelly, the Bills' Hall of Fame quarterback considers Talley his most underrated teammate and believes that Talley should also be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[3]

Buffalo Bills

Talley was selected in the second round of the

1983 NFL Draft
by the Bills and played in Buffalo for 12 seasons. He is the Bills' all-time leading tackler with 1,137, and also recorded 38.5 sacks, 12 interceptions for 189 return yards and 3 touchdowns, and 14 fumble recoveries for 76 return yards. He averaged 120 tackles, 3.5 sacks and 6.2 takeaways per season and his mark of 188 regular season games played ranks fifth-most in team history.

While with the Bills, Talley had multiple

Rich Stadium was known as the "Talley-Whackers". On November 4, 1990, playing against the Cleveland Browns in his hometown, Talley returned an interception for his first career touchdown.[4] After the season, he received the Ed Block Courage Award.[5]

In 2003 Talley became the 20th member on the Wall of Fame in

Ralph Wilson Stadium
.

Later career

Talley left the Bills to play with the Falcons in the 1995 campaign and then with the Vikings. He left Atlanta on a less than stellar note when it was discovered that he played his last game in Atlanta with a loaded U-Haul truck in the parking lot. He had it so he could go home to spend the holiday with his family once the game was over. He ended his career after the 1996 season and won the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Distinguished Service Award in 2000.

Personal life

On June 2, 2008 Talley commented that former Bills

kicker Scott Norwood
should be inducted onto the Bills' Wall of Fame. He stated;

"One thing I wish people would take a look at is out of all the things that we accomplished we wouldn't have done a lot of them without Scott Norwood". He continued on, "Everybody seems to have forgotten Scott. If you look back in the early days we won a lot of games with

Bruce missed some. Thurman dropped some balls and Jim threw interceptions, but nobody realizes that here is a guy that made major contributions to what this organization was about. It just irks me that people have forgotten him." [sic][6]

He now lives in

Dallas, Texas
with his wife Janine, who is a popular social media user, and their two kids.

Talley is the brother of Cleveland Brown John Talley and is the cousin of New York Yankee Derek Jeter.[7][8]

Talley was named to the Buffalo Bills 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 2009.[9][10]

A 2014 report in The Buffalo News revealed that Talley had suffered brain damage, which Talley suspects stems from his playing days and manifests itself as severe depression.[11]

On July 3, 2021 Wheeling, WV newspaper The Intelligencer published that Talley's number would be retired at the Mountaineers' Home Game of October 2, 2021, [1].

References

  1. ^ Mark DeVault. "Grant Wiley". WVUStats.com. West Virginia University. Archived from the original on January 16, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
  2. ^ a b 2008 College Football Hall of Fame ballot
  3. Page 2
    . Retrieved October 18, 2010.
  4. ^ "The Month of November in Bills History". Buffalo Bills. Archived from the original on April 13, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
  5. ^ Major, Andy (March 13, 2009). "Kelsay Received Ed Block Courage Award". Buffalo Bills. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
  6. ^ Brown, Chris (June 2, 2008). "Talley's Nominee for Bills Wall of Fame". Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ Lubinger, Bill (July 18, 2012). "Former Shaw High star Darryl Talley goes from overlooked to College Football Hall of Fame". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "This Birthday in Buffalo Sports History: Darryl Talley". The Buffalo News. July 9, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  9. ^ Major, Andy (April 25, 2009). "Bills All-Time Team Fan Voting determined 26 Total Members". Buffalo Bills. Archived from the original on April 29, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
  10. ^ "Buffalo Bills History - All-Time Team". Archived from the original on July 19, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  11. ^ Katzowitz, John (November 28, 2014). Bills fans raise more than $30K for former star LB Darryl Talley. CBS Sports. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

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