Dave Butz

Not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Nominated: 2012   

Final Season: 1988

Eligible: Class of 1994

Senior Committee Eligible: Class of 2014

Primary Teams:

Seasons: 1973 → 1988

Legends Score: 18 ?

Legends Score per Season: 1.13

Position: Defensive Tackle

Super Bowl Rings:

HALL OF FAME CREDENTIALS
✅All-Decade Team
✅1st Team All-Pro
✅Super Bowl Ring
✅Pro Bowl
🔲Defensive Player of the Year

Dave Butz @ Wikipedia

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Individual Career Highlights

All-Decade Teams (1):

1980s2nd TeamDT

All-Pro Teams (2):

1983RedskinsDT1st Team
1984RedskinsDT2nd Team

Pro Bowl Appearances (1):

1983RedskinsDT

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Dave Butz was the cornerstone of the Redskin DL in a run dominated league. He allowed players like Manley and Grant to get their sacks, while always taking on a dbl team. Butz was always stuffing a play and did not allow a QB to move up in the pocket. I hope he gets in one day along with Jacoby, Brian Mitchell, and Sean Taylor (most likely too short of career ).

Posted by Russman on 01/10/2024 @ 23:30pm

Dave Butz was the cornerstone of the Redskin DL in a run dominated league. He allowed players like Manley and Grant to get their sacks, while always taking on a dbl team. Butz was always stuffing a play and did not allow a QB to move up in the pocket. I hope he gets in one day along with Jacoby, Brian Mitchell, and Sean Taylor (most likely too short of career ).

Posted by Russman on 01/10/2024 @ 23:29pm

This is coming from a very devout Cowboys fan, who is very honest about giving credit to players who played against the Cowboys.

Dave Butz was a great player and should definitely be enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Canton, however he was a defensive lineman, not an offensive lineman. In fact, I think at one time in the prime of his career, he was considered by some pro football pundits to be the best defensive lineman in the entire League. (In all fairness, maybe he did play on offense at one time in his football career, but I can't find any information regarding that.)

Bless his soul, Dave Butz made his mark in the NFL for sixteen seasons. I hope he will be posthumously inducted into the HOF soon because his legacy and contributions to the NFL rightfully deserves to be with the other great defensive linemen in the HOF.

Posted by Conrad on 01/2/2024 @ 16:42pm

If there was ever a guy who deserved to be in the Hall of Fall, it was Dave Butz. In the 1970s and 1980s, the NFL was a run-heavy league. It was smash mouth football ALL the way. The linemen too rarely get in the Hall of Fame, but Butz was a leading Hog on the Redskin's offensive line and he just dominated defense linemen. Just manhandled them. He helped make Riggins the leading rusher that he was. How can Riggins, as great as he was, get in, but guys like Dave Butz didn't? Give more love to offensive linemen, especially of the smash mouth tough 80s era.

Posted by Blitz on 09/13/2021 @ 21:55pm

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