Darrin Earl Chiaverini (born October 12, 1977) is an American college football coach and former wide receiver.

During his career, he also played for the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL).

He helped the team achieve a 9–3 record, winning the Mountain View League title before losing in the state 4A semifinals.

He earned USA Today honorable-mention All-American, All-Mountain View League, All-Riverside County, All-CIF and All-state honors.

Chiaverini also played baseball, batting a .415 average with 25 stolen bases, while earning All-league and All-county honors as a junior.

He finished his college career with 97 receptions (seventh in school history), 1,199 receiving yards and 6 touchdowns.

He holds the Browns' record for most catches by a rookie in a game with 10 receptions (for 108 yards and a touchdown) against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

[1] In 2000 his performance regressed, playing in 10 games (2 starts) and missing 6 contests with a lingering knee injury.

He suffered a concussion in the season opener and saw limited action before returning to start games against the Steelers (9/17) and Raiders (9/24).

On August 28, 2001, he was traded to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for a conditional seventh round draft choice (not exercised).

In January 2010, Chiaverini was hired by Riverside City College (RCC) as associate head coach, co-offensive/special teams/recruiting coordinator.

The Riverside Tigers defeated Los Angeles Harbor College in the Central Division Championship Bowl in November 2010.

Riverside concluded their season with a 31–14 win over Saddleback College in the Golden State Bowl (November 19, 2011).

Additionally, Riverside's special teams ranked near the top in multiple categories since Chiaverini's arrival and have blocked a school record 22 kicks in four seasons as well as having had one of the top punt return units in the nation leading the conference in punt return yards three out of four seasons.

Riverside went 40–5 over those four seasons and won three conference titles and four Bowl Championships and 24 consecutive home wins.

Texas Tech also Ranked 2nd in Kickoff Coverage in 2014 with a net average of 40 yards with Oklahoma and Kansas St. During the 2014 season, Kicker Ryan Bustin set the school record for field goals made with 50.

Ranking was based on the point contributions of each unit to team's scoring margin, on per play basis.

Punter Taylor Symmank finished his career in the top two in school history with over 43 yards per punt.

[10] In 2016, Chiaverini helped lead the biggest turnaround in school and Pac-12 history when Colorado improved from 1–8 in conference play in 2015 to 8–1 in 2016 winning the Pac-12 South Championship.

Serving as co-offensive coordinator / wide receivers coach, Colorado had a record breaking year on offense.

[11] On February 12, 2020, Chiaverini was named the interim head coach at Colorado following the departure of Mel Tucker, who left for Michigan State the night before.

The 2020 Buffaloes, the second time where he called the bulk of the plays (along with the 2018 season), everyone was faced with all kinds of challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

But despite those challenges and mounting injuries, CU showed tremendous improvement in several areas in the shortened six-game season.

In addition, tailback Jarek Broussard was the first CU player to be named the Pac-12’s offensive player of the year, and Sam Noyer was the first quarterback to earn first- or second-team all-conference honors since Koy Detmer was first-team in 1996 (Noyer was second-team by the league coaches).

In his 1st year he led them to a 11-0 record and Chaffey Football won the American Metro Conference and Division Bowl Championship.