DENVER (AP) — About the only time Randy Gradishar ever disappointed his teammates was when he first arrived in Denver as the Broncos' first-round draft pick in 1974.
DENVER — About the only time Randy Gradishar ever disappointed his teammates was when he first arrived in Denver as the Broncos' first-round draft pick in 1974.
Aside from what he'd bring to the field, his teammates wondered what kind of muscle car he might have spent his signing bonus on and if the rumbling V-8 engine or thumping subwoofers would announce his arrival from blocks away. Gradishar wasn't a snarling linebacker in the mold of Jack Lambert, Dick Butkus or Lawrence Taylor. He was a tactician, deciphering offensive intentions with amazing accuracy and a superb athlete with an uncanny ability to stay on his feet and blow up plays.“Randy wasn’t the fastest, he wasn’t the quickest, he wasn’t the strongest, he’s just the most amazing tackling machine I had ever seen," Jackson said.
“Guys would go after his legs and he would just skirt over these guys and stay on his feet. So, he was a guy that would be available for tackling 100% of the time," Collier said."He was always around the ball. He wouldn’t get knocked down. He wasn’t a get-knocked-down type of guy.” “They told me Woody Hayes was there to see me. I said, ’OK, I’ll be right there,” Gradishar recounted. “Then, I hung up and I said, ‘Who’s Woody Hayes?‘”
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