Straight from Yahoo Sports:

Bills’ Everett under sedation after serious neck injury

By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer

September 10, 2007


ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills reserve tight end Kevin Everett will spend one to two days under sedation as doctors evaluate the extent of a severe spinal injury that could leave him paralyzed.

Everett is in the intensive care unit at Buffalo’s Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital after a four-hour operation performed hours after he was hurt in a season-opening loss to Denver, Eric Armstead, a partner of the player’s agent Brian Overstreet, told The Associated Press on Monday.

“He’ll be sedated for the next 24 to 48 hours and we won’t know more until then,” Armstead said. “We were told by the doctors that the surgery went well.”

Everett’s family members, including mother Patricia Dugas, were to arrive in Buffalo on Monday from their Houston home, Armstead said.

Overstreet told the AP late Sunday that his client had some “sparse movement.”

“The next couple of days is going to be critical,” said Overstreet, responding to a question about paralysis. “Our concern is for him to come out of this healthy and, hopefully, be able to walk again.”

The team doctor, John Marzo, is expected to provide a medical update in the afternoon.

 

 

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The NFL story is the same piece, I believe.

Replays showed the player twitching for a few seconds as he attempted to get up before falling back to the ground. Everett 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, with the player’s head and body immobilized, loaded him into an ambulance at the Broncos 30.

 

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