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Bills Everett Might Be Paralyzed
Published 9/10/2007 at About Football
... . With a serious neck injury, Everett was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital to undergo emergency surgery in which doctors removed bone chips from his third and fourth vertebrae. Thankfully he survived the operation, but he was placed on a respirator and is now in the intensive care unit. There is also the very real possibility that he may never walk again. According to his agent Brian Overstreet (per the Buffalo News ), Everett has had some sparse movement and the next couple days will be critical to his recovery. “Our concern is for him to come out of this healthy and, hopefully, be able to walk again”, said Overstreet. The fact that Overstreet's comments center around his client's ability to get out of bed by himself, rather than a prognosis on his return to the game is a brutal reminder that there is another human being inside that uniform, and although his conditioning is generally far better than the average ...

Bills’ Kevin Everett Possibly Paralyzed
Published 9/10/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... I neglected yesterday to mention that during Denver’s 15-14 win at Buffalo, Bills TE Kevin Everett was involved in a brutal collision with the Broncos’ Domenik Hixon. ...

Kevin Everett May Never Walk Again
Published 9/10/2007 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... "He's had some sparse movement," Everett's agent Brian Overstreet said. "The next couple of days is going to be critical ... Our concern is for him to come out of this healthy and, hopefully, be able to walk again." ...