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Barney Chavous to be inducted into Colorado Sports Hall of Fame | 9news.com

Barney Chavous is not nearly the most famous name of the Orange Crush defenders.

The South Carolina native is generally remembered after rattling several other members of the Orange Crush first - Randy Gradishar, Tom Jackson, Rubin Carter, Lyle Alzado, Louis Wright...

But he was no less crucial to the success of that famed Joe Collier-led defense.

In fact, the South Carolina State University graduate is one of only four Broncos players to reach the 75-sack milestone, behind Von Miller (110.5); Simon Fletcher (97.5); and Karl Mecklenburg (79). His name is not on the official leaderboard since sacks weren’t officially counted until 1983.