North Carolina A&T defensive lineman Kelvin Broadhurst Jr. killed in crash

North Carolina A&T lost more than a defensive lineman when Kelvin Broadhurst Jr. died in a motorcycle crash in Greensboro. The 20-year-old from Woodland was killed Saturday evening on Interstate 40 East, and the Aggies are now mourning a player whose value stretched beyond the stat sheet and into the daily life of the program.

Greensboro police said the crash happened at about 4:57 p.m. on the ramp from I-40 East to U.S. 29 South. Broadhurst was riding a Ducati when it ran off the road to the left, struck a guardrail and ejected him from the motorcycle. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No other vehicles were involved, and the Greensboro Police Department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit continued the investigation.

North Carolina A&T confirmed Broadhurst was an active member of the football program. He appeared in 28 career games for the Aggies and finished with 13 total tackles and 1.5 sacks. Those numbers only tell part of the story. His official roster bio described him as a player who would add depth for the Aggies and noted that he had a solid reputation in the classroom, a sign that the program saw him as the kind of student-athlete coaches trust to hold a room together as much as a huddle.

Broadhurst also arrived in college with a strong high school résumé from Dorman High School in South Carolina. His roster bio listed 43 tackles, six tackles for loss and three sacks as a senior, production that helped establish him as a dependable front-line player before he got to Greensboro. An obituary identified him as Kelvin Le’Vel Broadhurst Jr., born April 27, 2005, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and a proud graduate of Dorman’s Class of 2023. He was also known by the nicknames “Lil Kel” and “KJ.”

After his death, the grief around A&T widened into something bigger than football. WFMY reported that a scholarship was being created in his honor, and later coverage described Broadhurst as a valued presence in the program, remembered for mentorship, leadership and service. Additional reporting said he was an electrical engineering major and a Spring 2025 initiate of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., a profile that reinforced how deeply he was rooted in campus life.

For North Carolina A&T, this is a loss measured in far more than tackles and sacks. Broadhurst was a teammate, a student and a young man with his future still unfolding, and the program is now left to grieve a life cut short far too soon.