He was selected in the second round (36th overall) of the 1973 NFL draft by the Denver Broncos after playing college football for South Carolina State University.
He was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team defensive end on the 1972 Little All-America college football team.
Chavous was the head football coach at T. W. Josey High School in Augusta, Georgia.
Now he works as a team sports coach at Tutt Middle school in Augusta, Georgia.
This biographical article relating to an American football defensive lineman born in the 1950s is a stub.