The standard recruiting day story is about gifted athletes and their potential contribution on the football field. King Mwikuta is one of those gifted athletes who joins the Alabama football 2019 signing class.
The 4-Star future outside linebacker has the potential to be an outstanding edge rusher for the Alabama Crimson Tide. But there is another real-life story about King that is not all filled with gifts and blessings.
At the age of 38, when King was seven years old, his mother died. King was raised by his grandmother, Yvonne. At Troup County High School, when King announced his commitment to Alabama football he said of his mother,
I know she would have been up there sitting next to me.