Buffalo Bills’ tight end Kevin Everett was seriously injured during the opening game of the football season when he sustained a cervical spine injury when he ducked his head while driving into Denver Bronco’s Domenik Hixon during a kick-off. Everett lay on the field unconscious for fifteen minutes and then was taken to an area hospital by ambulance where he underwent a four-hour surgery on Sunday.
Everettt is now in intensive care at Buffalo’s Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital and will be sedated for the next 2 days. Doctors are not sure about whether or not the player will be paralyzed. The team’s doctor will be providing updates on the injured player’s condition throughout the coming weeks.
Replays show Everett twitching for a few seconds as he attempted to get up before falling back to the ground. He had his eyes open but showed no further signs of movement during the next 15 minutes as the team’s medical staff and emergency personnel carefully placed him on a backboard and put him in an ambulance on the field.
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