Redshirt freshman Emmanuel Crawford’s journey to college football was far from ordinary.
Long before the tailback enrolled at Arkansas as a preferred walk-on in the Class of 2023, Crawford was a victim of human trafficking when he was a 2-year-old child in Ghana. Crawford was sold into the fishing industry on Lake Volta, where approximately 20,000 children work for slave masters, according to the International Labour Organization.
“It’s kind of a common practice around that area just because of the poverty levels and struggling families,” Crawford said in 2023 during The Seeker Church’s Interview Series in Norman, Okla.