Deron Cherry
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Position: | Safety | ||
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Born: | Riverside Township, New Jersey, U.S. | September 12, 1959||
Height: | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
Weight: | 203 lb (92 kg) | ||
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High school: | Palmyra (NJ) | ||
College: | Rutgers | ||
Undrafted: | 1981 | ||
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Player stats at NFL.com |
Deron Leigh Cherry (born September 12, 1959) is an American former professional
Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, Cherry grew up in nearby Palmyra, and played high school football at Palmyra High School.[1][2]
Regarded as one of the best free safeties to have ever played the game, he was a six-time Pro Bowl selection from 1983 to 1988, starting in five of them in his 11 years with the Chiefs. Few other Chiefs players have been selected to this number of Pro Bowls. He had six 100 tackle seasons in his 11 years as a member of the Chiefs, with a career total of 927 tackles. He was a 5-time All-Pro in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1988. He was also a five-time 1st team All-AFC and two time 2nd team All-AFC selection. Cherry's 15 career fumble recoveries place him in a three-way tie for the Chiefs record. He ranks third on the Chiefs list of most interceptions, and is only the 26th player in the history of the NFL to reach the 50 interception plateau. In 1987, he was selected to the Chiefs 25-year All-Time Team.
In 1987, he won the
He is actively involved in several civic organizations, including
In 1995, Cherry became a limited ownership partner in one of the NFL's then-new expansion teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars. This made him the first minority owner of an NFL franchise in the league's history. Cherry is also a managing general partner with United Beverage, a local Anheuser-Busch distributor.
In 2019, the Professional Football Researchers Association named Cherry to the PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2019.[5]
NFL career statistics
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Regular season
Year | Team | Games | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||
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GP | GS | Int | Yds | Y/I | Lng | TD | FR | Yds | Y/F | TD | ||
1981 | KC | 13 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1982 | KC | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 |
1983 | KC | 16 | 16 | 7 | 100 | 14.3 | 41 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 |
1984 | KC | 16 | 16 | 7 | 140 | 20.0 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1985 | KC | 16 | 16 | 7 | 87 | 12.4 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1986 | KC | 16 | 16 | 9 | 150 | 16.7 | 49 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3.5 | 0 |
1987 | KC | 8 | 8 | 3 | 58 | 19.3 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1988 | KC | 16 | 16 | 7 | 51 | 7.3 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 1.6 | 0 |
1989 | KC | 15 | 15 | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 |
1990 | KC | 9 | 6 | 3 | 40 | 13.3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1991 | KC | 16 | 15 | 4 | 31 | 7.8 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Career | 148 | 124 | 50 | 688 | 13.8 | 67 | 1 | 14 | 21 | 1.5 | 0 |
References
- ^ Deron Cherry, NJSports.com. Accessed April 9, 2024. "Deron Leigh Cherry was born September 12, 1959, in Riverside and grew up in Palmyra.... He attended Palmyra High School, excelling on the athletic field and in the classroom."
- ^ Deron Cherry Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Database Football. Accessed January 24, 2008.
- ^ "Byron Whizzer White Award". Archived from the original on 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- NFL.com.
- ^ "PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2019". Retrieved September 14, 2019.