Every person who enters the Hall of Fame take their legacy, and their story, along with them. Donnie Shell is not the first person to be enshrined from a similar background, but the former Pittsburgh Steelers great is more than proud to raise the banner of the HBCUs as one of their sons.
HBCUs, or historically black colleges and universities, were largely ignored for the majority of their history in the scouting circles, but that began to change thanks to people like Bill Nunn, finding players like Shell, who are now recognized as one of the greats in NFL history.