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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 initially joined the team as a walk-on , eventually earning a scholarship and would later become an All-American .
Often, it is the players who achieve success in this manner that are the inspiration for future walk-ons. One significant college football national award, the Burlsworth Trophy—named after the eventual All-American former walk-on guard Brandon Burlsworth who played for the Arkansas Razorbacks—has been awarded since the 2010 season to the ...
Bradley Dunn got rewarded earlier this year by being put on scholarship with the South Carolina football team. On Saturday, the former senior walk-on earned another special honor: his first ...
The Burlsworth Trophy is an award given annually to the most outstanding FBS college football player who began his career as a walk-on. [1] [2] It was first awarded for the 2010 season and is a program of the Brandon Burlsworth Foundation. Burlsworth walked on to the Arkansas Razorbacks football program in 1994 and
More than 100 hopeful South Carolina football players crammed elbow-to-elbow inside a small room at the Gamecocks facility in 2014. The weather outside hovered between a crisp 40 and 45 degrees ...
Nebraska is considered the birthplace of walk-ons in college football, starting with coach Bob Devaney’s teams in the 1960s. Traditionally, Nebraska walk-ons were from small, rural towns who ...
Leonhard was a walk-on football player at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, having received no Division I-A scholarship offers out of high school. [2] He was not awarded a scholarship until his senior year, despite the fact that he had been a regular starting safety before that season and had already been named All-Big Ten twice. [3]
Matt Williams (born in Weatherford, Texas) is a former walk-on place kicker for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team. Williams was offered the position, two other players having failed to succeed for the team at that point, after winning a year's worth of free rent in a place-kicking contest at one of the Red Raiders games.