Don Talbert
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| Position: | Offensive tackle | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | March 1, 1939 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Louisville, Mississippi | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 255 lb (116 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Texas City | ||||||||
| College: | Texas | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1961 / Round: 8 / Pick: 100 | ||||||||
| AFL draft: | 1962 / Round: 34 / Pick: 271 | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 103 |
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| Games started: | 32 |
| Fumble recoveries: | 3 |
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Don Larry Talbert (born March 1, 1939) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons, and the New Orleans Saints. He played college football at the University of Texas at Austin and was drafted in the eighth round of the 1961 NFL Draft. Talbert was also selected in the 34th round of the 1962 AFL Draft by the Houston Oilers.
Talbert attended the University of Texas at Austin where he was a two-way tackle. He missed the 1958 season with a broken leg. As a fifth year senior in 1961, he earned All-American and All-SWC honors.
In 1992, he was inducted into the Longhorns Hall of Honor.
Talbert was selected in the eighth round of the 1961 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. As a rookie in 1962, although he played on the defensive line, he was mostly the backup at right offensive tackle and got a chance to start in 4 games.
He was in the reserve officer program at Texas and had to miss the next 2 seasons because of military service in the Vietnam War. He returned in 1965 and played in all 14 games as a backup.
The Atlanta Falcons selected him from the Cowboys roster in the 1966 NFL Expansion Draft. He was a two-year starter in Atlanta, before being traded on July 3, 1969, along with Errol Linden to the New Orleans Saints in exchange for Roy Schmidt, Jim Ferguson and Jerry Jones.
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