Steve DeBerg
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | January 19, 1954 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Oakland, California | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Anaheim (CA) Savanna | ||||||||
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San Jose State Fullerton College (JC) |
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| NFL Draft: | 1977 / Round: 10 / Pick: 275 | ||||||||
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| TD–INT: | 196–204 |
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| Yards: | 34,241 |
| QB Rating: | 74.2 |
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Steven Leroy "Steve" DeBerg (born January 19, 1954) is a retired American football player, a quarterback in the National Football League for 21 years. Although large portions of his career were spent as a backup, DeBerg ultimately accumulated some impressive NFL statistics, particularly during the early 1990s, when he was the starting QB for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Deberg played for the San Francisco 49ers (1978–1980), Denver Broncos (1981–1983), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1984–1987, 1992, 1993), Kansas City Chiefs (1988–1991), Miami Dolphins (1993), and Atlanta Falcons (1998).
DeBerg is an alumnus of Savanna High School in Anaheim, California, where he also excelled in the pole vault, and played college football at Fullerton College in Fullerton and San José State University. At Fullerton, he participated in the California Junior College state football playoffs in 1973.
DeBerg was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the tenth round (275th overall) of the 1977 NFL draft, but was waived before the start of the season. On September 14, he was signed to the San Francisco 49ers' taxi squad. Head coach Bill Walsh took over the team, and in 1979, DeBerg set several records for number of passing attempts and completions. However, when Walsh drafted Joe Montana from Notre Dame in the third round of the 1979 NFL draft, DeBerg was relegated to a backup role midway through the 1980 season. During his only full season as a starter, DeBerg lead the NFL in completions (347), pass attempts (578), and ranked 5th in the league in passing yards (3,652), throwing 17 touchdowns against 21 interceptions. DeBerg had his first 300-yard passing game in his 6th start against Seattle, completing a season high 31 of 40 passes for 306 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Late in the year he posted his first 100 Passer Rating as a starter, one of two 49'ers wins all year, against his future team Tampa Bay, finishing the contest an efficient 22 completion in 30 pass attempts (season high 73.3% completion rate) with one touchdown and zero interceptions. The following season in 1980 although the team was improving (San Francisco won just 2 games in 1979, they won 6 in 1980, 4 of them in games started by DeBerg) he completed 186 of 321 passes for 1,998 yards with 12 touchdowns but 17 interceptions. DeBerg started the 1980 campaign strong, winning his first 3 starts and twice completing over 70% of his pass attempts. Turnovers became an issue however as the team started struggling, the low light being a 5 interception game in a lopsided loss vs Dallas on 10/12/80. ( Full season statistics courtesy of Pro Football Reference.com, individual game statistics courtesy of NFL.com).
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