College Football: 15 players whose careers were cut too short

15 college football players whose careers ended too soon

Aug 30, 2014; Atlanta, GA, USA; West Virginia Mountaineers quarterback Clint Trickett (9) throws the ball against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the fourth quarter of the 2014 Chick-fil-a Kickoff Game at the Georgia Dome. Mandatory Credit: RVR Photos-USA TODAY Sports /

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Nov 26, 2016; East Hartford, CT, USA; Tulane Green Wave cornerback Parry Nickerson (17) is congratulated by his teammates after his interception against the Connecticut Huskies in the second quarter at Rentschler Field. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports /

You don’t often head much about players from Tulane, but if you were to name one, Devon Walker should be the first the comes to mind. The former safety for the Green Wave was injured in a Sept. 8, 2012, game during his senior campaign in which he collided with a teammate and was paralyzed.

Walker didn’t play as a freshman and saw some action as a sophomore before recording 23 tackles, a career-high, as a junior. During that fateful game against Tulsa, he collided with his teammate and remained down on the field. No one knew the severity until he was carted off the field with no movement of limbs.

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It was later revealed that he had been paralyzed from the neck down. It was the worst possible news anyone could have expected and his college career was over.

While he would never walk again, the Saints made a cool gesture by signing him shortly after he graduated from college in 2016.

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