FAYETTEVILLE — As a former walk-on himself at Iowa, Arkansas head football coach Bret Bielema certainly identifies with former Razorback walk-on-turned-All-American offensive lineman Brandon Burlsworth.
Bielema, who estimates that he has rewarded 18 walk-on players with scholarships in his four years at Arkansas, took his team last Friday to see a special showing of Greater, the movie about Burlworth’s life, his rise to be a third-round NFL draft pick of the Indianapolis Colts and his tragic early death at age 22.
The movie – which had a special red carpet premier locally Tuesday night - opens in some 400 theaters nationwide Friday.