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Brandon Vaughn Burlsworth (September 20, 1976 – April 28, 1999) was an American football player who was an offensive lineman of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team from 1995 to 1998. He joined the team as a walk-on and eventually became an All-American.

Eleven days after being drafted, Burlsworth was killed in a car accident near Alpena, Arkansas, on April 28, 1999, on his way back to his hometown of Harrison after a workout in Fayetteville.[11][12] Burlsworth’s vehicle clipped an oncoming 18-wheeler, swerved back into his lane, and then hit another tractor trailer head on. The stretch around Carrollton in which the crash occurred was not particularly rugged. A state police report said that, “for unknown reasons,” Burlsworth’s car drove left of the center line and hit the left front fender of a tractor trailer. After returning to its lane briefly, the car crossed the center line again and hit a second tractor trailer. Burlsworth was declared dead at the scene.[13]

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The Burlsworth Trophy is named after Brandon and was first awarded in 2010. This trophy is presented each year to college football’s most outstanding player who began his career as a walk-on.[14] Houston Nutt, Arkansas Razorback head football coach from 1998 through 2007, started the saying, “Do it the Burls Way”, which means do it the right way even when no one is looking. This is the motto of the Brandon Burlsworth Foundation.[15] Brandon’s jersey #77 is retired at the University of Arkansas. It is the second retired football jersey in school history.
His locker is enclosed in a glass case in the Razorback locker room.[16] The Harrison Youth Center in Harrison, Arkansas, was renamed the Brandon Burlsworth Youth Center in May 1999.
The Indianapolis Colts wore his initials, BB, on their helmets for the 1999 season.
The Indianapolis Colts honored him by giving each family member and the University of Arkansas Athletic Director a $5,000 (USD) check at halftime of the first Colts game after Brandon died in 1999.[17] In 2016, a biographical sports film was made about Burlsworth entitled Greater.
Brandon Burlsworth Foundation
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