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Who do you think was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Who do you think was the best defesive lineman ever for CU?


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MattThompson

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My list goes like this:
1. Herb Orvis
2. Bill Brundige
3. Laval Short
4. Troy Archer
5. Joel Steed

There would be several players who just barely not make the list such as Bud Magrum, Justin Bannan, and Tyler Brayton, really some tough choices. What would your lists look like? If anyone knows how to locate a picture of Laval Short please post the link, I tried for the longest time to find one and coudn't.
 
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Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

My list goes like this:
1. Herb Orvis
2. Bill Brundige
3. Laval Short
4. Troy Archer
5. Joel Steed

There would be several players who just barely not make the list such as Bud Magrum, Justin Bannan, and Tyler Brayton, really some tough choices. What would your lists look like? If anyone knows how to locate a picture of Laval Short please post the link, I tried for the longest time to find one and coudn't.

Tyler Brayton was the thinest :lol:
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

:congrats: for actually posting it here:lol:
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

I remember Woolfork had a pretty big presence on the D-line.
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Brayton was a monster. Of the ones listed, I'd have to choose Steed based on the fact that he ended up playing in the NFL for about 8 years. That's a pretty long career for a defensive lineman. Of course, I think Brayton is still in the league more than 10 years after he left CU.
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Brayton was a monster. Of the ones listed, I'd have to choose Steed based on the fact that he ended up playing in the NFL for about 8 years. That's a pretty long career for a defensive lineman. Of course, I think Brayton is still in the league more than 10 years after he left CU.

You need to remember that the point of the poll is to figure out who had the best college career; it has nothing to do with NFL careers, that would change who was in the poll to begin with. That's why players such as Brayton, Renfro, etc. didn't make the top 5.
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Gary howe? clavelle? Matt Mchesney?
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Clavelle and Renfro in my opinion were two of our best linemen, regardless of NFL careers. If you're taking that into account, Steed takes it by far. He was an all-pro stalwart for a few years for the Steelers.
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Clark Evans... if he wants to be..
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Brayton was a monster. Of the ones listed, I'd have to choose Steed based on the fact that he ended up playing in the NFL for about 8 years. That's a pretty long career for a defensive lineman. Of course, I think Brayton is still in the league more than 10 years after he left CU.


10 years?


Dude was drafted 2003, that is quite a feat.
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Mayfield HS's very own Darius Holland was pretty good. Top ten in my book.
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Joel Steed. We graduated in the same HS class, so I got to see him play back when he was beating up on Creek and Mullen. Shout out to the Hinkley Thunderbirds!
 
Joel Steed hands down. He may even be among the best nose tackles in NFL history. The guy was a force.

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Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Really?

OK. I thought he was one of skippy's guys.

He was part of Neuheisel's last class, played as a freshman and redshirted later. Quite the monster though. I think he almost got kicked off the team for kicking a$$ in practice.
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

Clavelle and Renfro in my opinion were two of our best linemen, regardless of NFL careers. If you're taking that into account, Steed takes it by far. He was an all-pro stalwart for a few years for the Steelers.

Really? I thought Clavelle and Holland were overrated when they were here..

They were good, but not elite..


CU really hasn't had a lot of great DL from 80's until now.. Some good players but not elite..

I'd probably go with Steed since he played during the best era of CU football/Big 8 champs.

Brayton had a great career here too even with the 4-2-4 Okruch led defense.. :lol:

Woolfork was more of a pass rushing LB/DE.. I'm not sure we can count him as a DL..
 
Joel Steed is one of the most underrated players ever. His number should be on the press boxes in Folsom. It's crazy how much people overlook him.
 
Steed was a beast,but I think he's running away with this poll because he's the guy most of us remember. I did find a couple write ups on Orvis and Brundige from a poll Scout did like this back in 2006....

Bill Brundige
6-5, 235 pounds
1967-69
Haxtun, Colo.
Brundige moved back and forth between defensive tackle and defensive end during his career, but had a huge senior season in 1969 at end. That season he set a CU record with 24 tackles for loss, including 13 sacks. The 13 sacks mark stood until 1992, but no Buffalo has duplicated Brundige’s single-season TFL mark. His 37 career TFL is No. 9 on the CU list. Brundige was named first-team All-American by Football Writers Association, second-team by AP and UPI. That same year, he earned the Big Eight Defensive Player of the Year award, as well as a spot on the first team. Brundige played eight years in the NFL with the Washington Redskins, and is considered by many as one of the great all-time Redskins players. If you’re not sure you ever saw Brundige play, chances are you did as he was involved in one of the most replayed clips in Super Bowl history. It was Brundige who blocked Miami Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian’s field goal attempt near the end of Super Bowl VII. Rather than fall on the ball, Yepremian picked it up and tried an ugly, ill-fated pass that was intercepted and returned for a score. Miami held on to win the game, however.

Herb Orvis
6-5, 235 pounds
1969-71
Petoskey, Mich.
Orvis was in the Army stationed in Germany when CU head coach Eddie Crowder met him and invited him to play football at Colorado. Orvis was awarded the Big Eight Newcomer of the Year following his sophomore season in 1969 when he had 75 tackles, including nine sacks. The following two seasons, Orvis earned first-team all-Big Eight honors, and was a near consensus All-American in 1971, his senior season. Orvis earned national lineman of the week honors after garnering 12 tackles and two sacks in CU’s 41-13 win over No. 4-ranked Penn State in 1970, a game that ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Orvis’ 20-career sacks ranks No. 5 on CU’s all-time list. Former teammate Bobby Anderson recently remembered Orvis as a “wild man” (it was a compliment) in a Daily Camera story. After being drafted No. 16 in the first round in 1972, Orvis went on to play 10 years in the NFL. In a 2001 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story, a writer named Orvis to the NFC Central’s all-time “Black and Blue Team,” saying the honored were not the division’s best, but “they all inflicted bruises.” With the nickname Crazy Herbie, Detroit Lions former director of player personnel said Orvis “was nuts
 
Re: Who do you thin was the best defensive lineman ever for CU?

He was part of Neuheisel's last class, played as a freshman and redshirted later. Quite the monster though. I think he almost got kicked off the team for kicking a$$ in practice.

He was getting his ass handed to him by a true frosh (Jesse Wallace) as a soph. He lost it and tore Jesse's helmut off and cold cocked him with it. Not only did he get suspended for a game but all the players (especially the black OL) in practice for the next few weeks kicked his ass, rightfully so. In the end Tyler was a good guy, took my fav buff under his wing and they played side by side for a few years. He just had what eveyone thinks was a little riod rage that day with Jesse. Lots of really good people on that team but as usual a few bad apples.
 
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