Chucky Mullins – 20 years later: What is his legacy?

Chucky Mullins – 20 years later: What is his legacy?

RUSSELLVILLE, ALA. — Roy Lee “Chucky” Mullins’ neatly kept grave resides in the shade of tall oak trees on the edge of hilly Luketown Cemetery in this remote northwest Alabama town.
The epitaph on the marble monument is as telling as it is succinct:
Chucky
Man of Courage
He was that. It has been nearly 20 years since Mullins, a lightly recruited University of Mississippi defensive back, both warmed and captured the hearts of Mississippians with his smile and his grit in the face of a football injury that left him a quadriplegic and eventually took his life.

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9/30/9