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Kurt Barber Edit Profile

gridiron football player

Kurt Barber is the defensive line coach for University of Nevada, Las Vegas"s football team and a former standout linebacker in college and in the National Football League.

Career

He was an High school All-American at both WR and LB.

Barber graduated from the University of Southern California where he was All-Pac-10 as a linebacker. Barber was selected with the 42nd pick in the 2nd round of the 1992 NFL Draft by the New York Jets where he played until 1995. Barber played for the New York Jets, Denver Broncos and Chicago Bears.

Barber was originally named the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rebels football linebackers coach in 2004. after having coached at the University of Utah, Kent State and Tennessee-Martin.

He began his coaching career in 1998 at Riverside Community College. He is now the Offensive Lincolnshire coach at Campbellsville University in Kentucky.

Achievements

  • Barber prepped at Paducah Tilghman High School where he won the Kentucky "Mr. Football" Award in 1987. He was a starter as a junior and senior and was a four-year letter winner.