Brandon Burlsworth was known as an American professional football player. He is most famous for his college football career at the University of Arkansas.
Brandon Burlsworth was born on September 20, 1976, in Harrison, Arkansas. Burlsworth attended Harrison High School where he was an All-State selection. He graduated from high school in 1994 and was recruited as a football player for the University of Arkansas.
Burlsworth graduated in 1998 from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Business Administration. In 1999, he completed an MBA and was the first Razorback football player to complete a master's degree.
Brandon Burlsworth bulked himself up to 300 lbs to be an offensive guard and by his sophomore season in 1996, he had earned a scholarship and a starting position at right guard on the offensive line. Burlsworth was selected to be of the team captains by his junior season in 1997 for the University of Arkansas. He earned 1st team All-SEC honors in 1997 and 1998 and was selected for the 1998 College Football All-America Team.
Burlsworth was also Arkansas' first All-American player since 1993 and was also on the All-SEC Academic Honor Roll from 1995 to 1998. His final game with the team was in the 1999 Citrus Bowl. Burlsworth was selected in the 3rd round of the 1999 NFL draft by the Indianapolis Colts but he was killed eleven days later in a car accident near Alpena, Arkansas on April 28, 1999.
Brandon did not get married before he passed away when he was only twenty-two years old.
The former Arkansas hostile, Brandon Burlsworth was headed to his Harrison, Ark., home from Fayetteville, where he got a SEC West title ring alongside the remainder of the 1998 Razorbacks on April 28, 1999. Each Wednesday, he came back to take his mother, Barbara, to chapel. The drive would always take around an hour and a half but he never made it.
The 22-year-old Burlsworth, who had been drafted by the Colts 11 days earlier in the wake of gaining first-group All-America respects as a fifth-year senior, was involved with a head-on crash with a tractor-trailer around 15 miles outside Harrison and was killed. He was in the prime of his football career.
As indicated by the police report, Burlsworth's vehicle floated somewhat over the middle line on U.S. 412, cut the front bumper of a tractor-trailer, and afterward, while he was probably attempting to recover control, crossed the inside line again and hit another tractor-trailer. At the point when he hadn't shown up by 4, Brandon's brother, Marty got a concerned call from his mother and went to her home. At the point when he showed up, he saw the rear of a white vehicle that he from the start thought was Brandon's. As it turned out, it was a squad car, with officials there to convey the bad news.
He had intended to help under advantaged children and the Burlsworth family settled the establishment that in his honor. At that point, Arkansas Razorback Coach, Houston Nutt started the phrase after his demise, "Do it the Burls Way". An expression that implied do it the correct way, in any event, when nobody is looking.
In 2001, "Eyes of a Champion, the Brandon Burlsworth Story" by Jeff Kinley was released. A film about Brandon's existence with the working title "Greater" was shot in 2013 and was released as a feature movie on August 26, 2016. It was composed and produced by Brian Reindl and David Hunt.
| Birth Date: | 20 Sep, 1976 |
| Age: | 43 yrs |
| Occupations: | American football player |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Harrison |
| Education: | University of Arkansas |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American football player |
| Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |
