Darrin Chiaverini Biography

Darrin Chiaverini is an American football assistant coach and former wide receiver. He played college football at Colorado. He was drafted in the fifth round (148th overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns.

During his career, he also played for the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was formerly the special team’s coordinator and outside wide receivers coach for Texas Tech prior to joining the Colorado coaching staff.

Darrin Chiaverini Age

Darrin Chiaverini was born on October 12, 1977, in Orange County, California United States. He is 41 years old as of 2018.

Darrin Chiaverini Net worth

Darrin Chiaverini earns his income from his businesses and from other related organizations. He also earns his income from his work as a football assistant coach and former wide receiver. He has an estimated net worth of $ 4 million dollars.

Darrin Chiaverini Family

Darrin Chiaverini was born in Orange County, California United States to American ethnic parents. His father Ed was an original member of the surf rock band “The Lively Ones” in the early 1960s. He has a brother who is a Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award-winning television personality and the co-host of Windy City Live on ABC Chicago.

Darrin Chiaverini Education

Darrin Chiaverini attended Corona High School. He completed his bachelor’s degree in communications in 2006 from the University of Colorado. He went on to complete his Master’s degree in Human Performance and Sport Sciences in 2009 from New Mexico Highlands University.

Darrin Chiaverini Wife

Darrin Chiaverini is married to Shannon Burchfield. He resides in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife Shannon and their two children, Curtis and Kaylie Chiaverini.

Darrin Chiaverini College career

Darrin Chiaverini accepted a football scholarship from the University of Colorado. As a sophomore, he appeared in 11 games as a backup, tallying 7 receptions for 61 yards.

He had a break-out game in the 1996 Holiday Bowl, making 7 catches for 94 yards and one touchdown. As a junior, he played in 11 games (9 starts), ranking second on the team with 35 receptions for 461 yards.

As a senior, he led the team with 52 receptions for 630 yards and 5 touchdowns. He finished his college career with 97 receptions (seventh in school history), 1,199 receiving yards and 6 touchdowns.

In 1998, he won the inaugural Buffalo Heart Award given to the Colorado Buffalo player that best “demonstrates grit, determination, and toughness.”

During Chiaverini’s tenure, Colorado had two 10-win seasons. The Buffaloes won three bowl games during this time: the 1996 Cotton Bowl, the 1996 Holiday Bowl, and 1998 Aloha Bowl. Chiaverini was team captain for the Buffs in 1998.

Darrin Chiaverini Professional career

Cleveland Browns

Chiaverini was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round (148th overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft, who was returning to the NFL as an expansion team following the original team’s 1996 relocation to Baltimore. He appeared in 16 games and started 8 contests in place of an injured Leslie Shepherd.

He ranked fifth among NFL rookies with 44 catches (fifth-highest by a rookie in club history) and sixth with 487 yards (sixth-highest by a rookie in club history), to go along with four touchdowns. He holds the Browns’ record for most catches by a rookie in a game with 10 receptions (for 108 yards and a touchdown) against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

In 2000 his performance regressed, playing in 10 games (2 starts) and missing 6 contests with a lingering knee injury. He finished with only 8 receptions for 68 yards and one touchdown. He suffered a concussion in the season opener and saw limited action before returning to start games against the Steelers (9/17) and Raiders (9/24). He was declared inactive in 6 of the last 8 weeks due to a knee injury.

Dallas Cowboys

On August 28, 2001, he was traded to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for a conditional seventh-round draft choice (not exercised). He was mostly used as the third receiver, recording 10 receptions for 107 yards and two touchdowns, before being waived on June 13, 2002.

Atlanta Falcons

On July 2, 2002, he was signed as a free agent by the Atlanta Falcons.ref>”Falcons give Vick big target in Chiaverini”. ESPN.com. Retrieved January 14, 2018.</ref> A quadriceps injury limited him to seven games and no receptions during the season, while being declared inactive in 9 games. After not being re-signed, he finished his NFL career with 62 catches for 662 yards and seven touchdowns.

Austin Wranglers

Following his stint with the Falcons, Chiaverini went into the Arena Football League (AFL) where he played from 2004-2006. While there, he accrued 213 receptions for 1,944 yards and 33 touchdowns for the Austin Wranglers.

Darrin Chiaverini Coaching career

Chiaverini began his coaching career in 2007 as the wide receiver coach for Mt. San Antonio College. In January 2010, Chiaverini was hired by Riverside City College (RCC) as associate head coach, Co-Offensive/Special Teams/Recruiting Coordinator.

He helped Riverside to a 10-1 record and a Central Division Championship during the 2010 season. The Riverside Tigers defeated Los Angeles Harbor College in the Central Division Championship Bowl in November 2010.

RCC was 1-9 in 2009 and the 10-1 record in 2010 marked one of the biggest turnarounds in junior college football history. In 2011, RCC recorded a perfect 11-0 record, snapping Mt. San Antonio College’s 26 game win streak. Riverside College went on to capture back to back Central Division Championships and was ranked #1 in Southern California in the final poll conducted by the California Community College Athletic Association/CCCFCA Football Poll (11/13/2011).

Riverside concluded their season with a 31-14 win over Saddleback College in the Golden State Bowl (11/19/2011). RCC led the nation in scoring offense and set two school records, averaging 49.6 points per game while scoring 64 touchdowns.

In 2013, Riverside’s offense accrued 6,399 total yards, another school record. Additionally, Riverside’s special teams ranked near the top in multiple categories since Chiaverini’s arrival and have blocked a school record 22 kicks in four seasons as well as having had one of the top punt return units in the nation leading the conference in punt return yards three out of four seasons.

Also in 2013, Riverside returned a school record three kickoff returns for touchdowns. Chiaverini also served as the recruiting coordinator for the school. Riverside transferred 42 players to Division I (NCAA) schools from 2010-2013.

Riverside went 40-5 over those four seasons and won three conference titles and four Bowl Championships and 24 consecutive home win. Chiaverini also served as the special team Coordinator in the East-West Shrine Game under former NFL Head Coach Jerry Glanville in 2013 and 2014 for the East Team.

Division I

In 2009, Chiaverini was the assistant special team’s coach under Frank Gansz, Jr. for the UCLA Bruins. UCLA’s special teams ranked among the best in the Pacific-10 Conference in 2009. UCLA went on to defeat Temple 30-21 in the 2009 EagleBank Bowl in Washington, D.C.

He was named the special team’s coordinator for Texas Tech on January 16, 2013, becoming the first full-time special teams coach at the school since 2009. In 2014 Texas Tech improved from last in the conference in Net Punting in the Big 12 Conference in 2013 to 2nd in the Conference in 2014 with a 42.2 Net Average.

Texas Tech also Ranked 2nd in Kickoff Coverage in 2014 with a net average of 40 yards with Oklahoma and Kansas St. During the 2014 season, Kicker Ryan Bustin set the school record for field goals made with 50. Texas Tech was also plus three in the NCAA in +/- ratio in 2014 on Special Teams. In 2015, Chiaverini was named the outside wide receivers coach in addition to his special team’s duties.

In 2015, Chiaverini was one of 30 coaches in the NCAA selected to the NFL-NCAA Coaches Academy in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2015 Texas Tech’s Special Teams ranked 12th in the nation in Special Teams Efficiency according to ESPN. The ranking was based on the point contributions of each unit to the team’s scoring margin, on per play basis.

ESPN ranked Texas Tech’s offense second in the nation in Offensive Efficiency. Texas Tech’s offense set a school record in 2015 with 596 points scored breaking the previous record set in 2008. Texas Tech’s offense finished 2nd in the NCAA in scoring (46.6 points per game) and total offense 594.5 yards per game).

Wide Receiver / Kick Returner Jakeem Grant was 5th in the nation in Kickoff Return yards with 1017 yards and tied a school record with two kickoff returns for touchdowns in 2015. Grant garnered 2nd team All-America honors from the Associated Press, Sports Illustrated and CBS and was named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week twice in 2015.

Freshman placekicker Clayton Hatfield ranked 8th in the nation and 1st in the Big-12 in Field Goal Percentage 87.5%. Punter Taylor Symmank finished his career in the top two in school history with over 43 yards per punt. Texas Tech did not have a field goal or punt blocked during the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

Chiaverini departed Texas Tech for his alma mater Colorado in December 2015 being named Co-Offensive Coordinator / Recruiting Coordinator / Wide Receivers. In 2016, Chiaverini helped lead the biggest turnaround in school and Pac-12 history when Colorado improved from 1-8 in conference play in 2015 to 8-1 in 2016 winning the Pac-12 South Championship.

Colorado improved from 4-9 in 2015 to 10-3 in 2016. Serving as co-offensive coordinator / wide receivers coach, Colorado had a record-breaking year on offense. The records including total offense (5,802), first quarter points (120), offensive plays (1,037), red-zone opportunities (55), 500-plus yard games of total offense (6 tied), first downs (310), Pac-12 Offensive Players-of-the-Week (4).

Colorado’s biggest improvement was in points scored. In 2015 Colorado scored 320 points. In 2016 Colorado scored 427 points in an increase of 107 points. Colorado also scored 50 offensive touchdowns in 2016, an improvement from 38 in 2015.

It was also the first time in school history to have a quarterback throw for 300 yards and rush for 100 yards in a game. Colorado accomplished this feat twice. Quarterback Steven Montez passed for 333 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 135 yards and another touchdown in Colorado’s win against Oregon.

Montez was named Pac-12 Player-of-the-Week. Quarterback Sefo Liufau passed for 345 yards and rushed for 108 yards and a touchdown against Washington State. Liufau was named Pac-12 Player-of-the-Week and CBS National Player of the Week. Only four quarterbacks achieved the feat of throwing for 300 and rushing for a 100 in a game in 2016.

Chiaverini also served as Recruiting Coordinator for the Buffaloes and in 2017 Coachingsearch.com reported that Colorado had the most improved recruiting class in the nation as they improved 32 spots to have the 35th ranked recruiting class in the country according to 247sports.com. Scout.com reported that Colorado had a Top 30 class nationally and was their highest ranked class.

Darrin Chiaverini Assistant coach

Darrin Chiaverini as a junior, had 70 receptions for 1,116 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 4 interceptions while playing free safety. He received All-league, All-county and All-CIF honors.

As a senior in 1994, he led the state of California in receptions with 88, to go along with 1,188 receiving yards, 10 receiving touchdowns, 30 carries for 330 rushing yards and 3 rushing touchdowns playing occasionally at slotback.

He helped the team achieve a 9-3 record, winning the Mountain View League title before losing in the state 4A semifinals. He earned USA Today honorable mention All-American, All-Mountain View League, All-Riverside County, All-CIF and All-state honors. He finished his prep career 178 receptions for 2,698 yards and 22 touchdowns.

Chiaverini also played baseball, batting a .415 average with 25 stolen bases, while earning All-league and All-county honors as a junior. Growing up he played both ice hockey and roller hockey. On October 13, 2010, he was inducted into the Corona High School Hall of Fame.

Darrin Chiaverini Football

Darrin Chiaverini is in his fourth year as the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Colorado, joining the Buffalo staff on January 1, 2016, from Texas Tech University, where he spent the previous two seasons on the Red Raiders’ staff. Chiaverini, 41, is nationally recognized as a top recruiter; Rivals.com named him one of the top 25 recruiters in the country for 2018.

He also served as co-offensive coordinator for his first three seasons (2016-18) after returning to his alma mater where he lettered four times under head coach Rick Neuheisel from 1995-98.  He accepted his new roles on December 15, 2015, but remained with Tech for its bowl game.
In 2016, his first season on the CU staff, he helped guide the Buffalo offense to one of its best years overall in recent memory.

Colorado averaged 446.3 yards per game, its best figure in 20 seasons, with the school’s fourth-best conversion rate in the red zone in school history dating back to 1957 at 89.5 percent (51-of-57, with 37 touchdowns).  His receiving corps hauled in 199 catches for 2,724 yards (13.7 per) with 19 touchdowns that season, and over the course of his two years, have 408 receptions for 5,454 yards and 33 scores.

In his third year co-coordinating the offense in 2018, the Buffaloes had a surprising historical first, as CU boasted for the first time in the same season a 1,000-yard rusher (1,009 by Travon McMillian) and receiver (1,011 by Laviska Shenault, though he missed three-plus games with a foot injury and still earned first-team All-Pac 12 Conference honors from the league coaches as he led the nation in receptions per game).

And for a second straight year, quarterback Steven Montez just missed becoming the second player at Colorado to throw for 3,000 yards in a season (2,975 in 2017; 2,849 in 2018). Chiaverini spent the 2014-15 seasons as the Red Raiders’ special teams coordinator and outside receivers coach.  At Tech, he recruited the Dallas, Houston and the Southern California areas, and one of his players, Jakeem Grant, earned second-team All-America honors at kick returner for the 2015 season.

One of new Neuheisel’s first commitments as head coach in Colorado’s 1995 recruiting class, Chiaverini earned four letters from 1995-98 and served as one of the team captains his senior season.  He caught 97 passes for 1,199 yards and six touchdowns, averaging 12.4 yards per reception in his career, exiting at the time as CU’s seventh all-time receiver (he remains in the top 15 in both catches and yards).  He led the team as a senior with 52 catches for 630 yards and five scores.

He was a member of three CU bowl champion teams (Cotton, Holiday and Aloha), making an additional 10 catches for 190 yards and two touchdowns, one a 72-yard bomb from his best friend, quarterback Mike Moschetti against Oregon in the ’98 Aloha Bowl. He was a fifth-round selection by the Cleveland Browns in the 1999 National Football League Draft and went on to set the club’s rookie receiving a record with 44 catches for 487 yards and four touchdowns.

He spent four years in the NFL, also playing for Dallas and Atlanta; he would conclude his NFL career with 62 catches for 662 yards and seven scores.  He then finished his professional playing days with the Austin Wranglers in the Arena Football League. Chiaverini then turned his attention to coaching, tutoring the receivers at Mt. San Antonio College in 2007 and was promoted to co-offensive coordinator in 2008.

In 2009, he rejoined his college coach, Neuheisel, as the assistant special team’s coach at UCLA.  He helped pilot one of the top units in the Pac-10 and the Bruins captured the Eagle Bank Bowl with a 30-21 win over Temple. He returned to the junior college ranks for the next four seasons (2010-13) at Riverside (Calif.) City College, where he was the associated head coach, co-offensive and special teams coordinator in addition to being in charge of recruiting.

Riverside was 40-5 in the four years there and produced 15 Division I players, three of whom would head to his next stop, Texas Tech. His special team’s units at Riverside from 2010-13 were some of the best in all of the junior college ranks with an impressive 22 blocked kicks in four seasons.  Chiaverini coached the top punt returner in the state of California in 2011 and 2012, while Riverside’s offense led California in scoring in 2011 and in total offense in 2013.

He was one of 30 coaches across the country selected to participate in the 2015 NFL and NCAA Coaches Academy.  Initiated in 2011, it is a collaborative effort between NCAA Leadership Development and NFL Player Engagement to positively influence diversity numbers in the college game and as a way for talented young football coaches to get exposure.

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