What a terrible day in college football. First, Tulane safety Devon Walker suffered a horrific injury on a helmet-to-helmet hit, and was diagnosed with a cervical spine fracture. Hours later, Arkansas cornerback Tevin Mitchel suffered a serious injury and had to be carted off on an eerily similar play.
Mitchel was going for a tackle at the same time as his Arkansas teammate Alonzo Highsmith, and the two had a violent head-on collision. Mitchel was attended to on the field as the stadium fell silent, and was taken away in an ambulance. Matt Jones of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette tweeted that Mitchel was responsive as he was being carted off. Trey Schaap of Arkansas radio station 103.7 The Buzz reported that Mitchel's mother was with him in the ambulance. The extent of Mitchel's injury hasn't been announced by the school.
As we said with Walker before, thoughts and prayers go out to Mitchel, his family and teammates.
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