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Report: Arkansas football commit dies in ATV accident

Dion Stutts was heading into his senior year at Memphis University School

Andy Buhler, SBLive Sports

Report: Arkansas football commit dies in ATV accident
Report: Arkansas football commit dies in ATV accident /

A Memphis area high school football standout died in a reported ATV accident on Tuesday night.

Memphis University School's Dion Stutts, a rising senior and 18-year-old Arkansas Razorbacks football commit, died in an ATV accident on his farm in Mississippi, athletic director Bobby Alston told the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Multiple news outlets confirmed the news late Tuesday night.

Stutts was a 6-foot-3, 250-pound defensive lineman. He committed to Arkansas in March and was rated a three-star prospect according to 247 Sports. He also held offers from Louisville and Ole Miss, among others.

“Our hearts are broken for the family. Dion was such a great young man. He had a smile that warmed your heart when you had a chance to be around him," Alston told the Commercial Appeal.

Stutts helped out on his family's beef cattle farm located in Batesville, Mississippi — roughly a 20-minute drive from Oxford — and that his attendance at Memphis University School carried a more than hour-long commute since he was a seventh grader, according to 247 Sports.

He logged 30 tackles — 13 of them for loss — as a junior last fall and also wrestled for the school.

This is a developing story.

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Andy Buhler, SBLive Sports
ANDY BUHLER, SBLIVE SPORTS

Andy Buhler is a Regional Editor of Texas and the national breaking news desk. He brings more than five years of experience covering high school sports across the state of Washington and beyond, where he covered the likes of Paolo Banchero and Tari Eason served on state tournament seeding committees. He works on the SBLive/Sports Illustrated Power 25 national boys basketball rankings. He has covered everything from the Final Four, MLS in Atlanta to local velodrome before diving into the world of preps. His bylines can be found in The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), The Associated Press, The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington), The Oregonian and more. He holds a degree from Gonzaga and is based out of Portland, Oregon.

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