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Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett continues to shock doctors with his steady improvement following a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
The NFL player returned to his native Texas on Friday to begin the second phase of his recovery closer to his family.
"Kevin's trip went pretty good. He stayed awake the entire time. He's fine," Eric Armstead, a partner of Everett's agent, Brian Overstreet, told The Associated Press. "He's doing well and he's resting. That's the news:
He's resting."
Accompanied by his mother and girlfriend, Everett was transferred by private plane from Buffalo to Houston's Memorial Hermann hospital, which provides medical rehabilitation for patients of catastrophic trauma such as brain or spinal cord injuries.
Armstead said Everett continues to breathe independently from any machines, and is happy to interact with his Texas-based family, including his three younger sisters, and friends who were unable to visit him in Buffalo.
Everett suffered the injury while making a tackle in the Bills' season opener against Denver on Sept. 9. Doctors initially feared Everett would never walk again after he arrived at Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital paralyzed from the neck down. But he began moving his arms and legs a few days later, leading doctors to significantly upgrade their prognosis. They're now confident the player could be walking within weeks.
