Kevin Everett , (born February 5, 1982) is a former tight-footed American footballer who plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the bill in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played football at the University of Miami after moving from Kilgore College.
On September 9, 2007, Everett suffered a fracture and a dislocation of his cervical spine that his doctor characterized as "life-threatening" the day after the injury, and expressed the possibility of leaving him with a permanent neurological disorder. However, on September 11, 2007, Everett showed significant movement in his arms and legs, which caused the doctors to speculate that he could finally walk again. Indeed, Everett runs public for the first time at Ralph Wilson Stadium before the home game against the New York Giants on December 23, 2007.
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High school career
Everett attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, Texas, where he was a three-year letterman in football. As a senior, he won the Class 5A All-State award in 2000.
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College career
Kilgore College
Kevin Everett studied at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas for two years, where he was the first-ever All-Southwest Junior College football conference guide, who ranks second best junior player in the country. As a second year student, he captured 18 bait for 310 yards and 2 goals.
Miami University
He then moved to the University of Miami. Everett left Miami as 86 overall voted by Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft.
Professional career
In 2005, Everett became a very tight second club in Buffalo Bills which was brought to the team within a few years, after Tim Euhus was recruited in 2004. Everett struggled with injuries almost from day one with Bill, after missing the 2005 season after suffering a knee ligament torn on the first day of 2005 minicamp. She was placed on a list that could not appear physically on August 10, 2005, and on an injured reserve on November 30th.
Everett returned to play in 2006, where he participated in a special team for most of the season. He started his first career on September 10, 2006 in New England, with the Bills opening in two tight final sets. On October 1 of the same year, Everett made his first NFL acceptance of his career, earning a yard with decoyed bait.
Career ends injury and its impact
On September 9, 2007, in the 1st week of the 2007 NFL season, while trying to tackle the Denver Broncos kickoff back, Domenik Hixon, Everett suffered a neck injury that resulted in his off-road transport by ambulance and emergency operations at Millard Fillmore Gates RSUD. The injury was described as a cervical spine injury. After a long operation, Everett's agent Brian Overstreet expressed hope that the injured player would be able to walk, but also reported Everett's moves as "rare." Aside from his eyes, Everett showed no signs of movement on the pitch after suffering an injury. It was announced that he would spend a day or two under sedation when doctors evaluated the severity of the injury.
In a televised September 10 press conference, medical director of the Buffalo Bills team. John Marzo described the Everett injury as a fracture and dislocation of the cervical spine, resulting in an injury to the spinal cord. Orthopedic surgeon Dr Andrew Cappuccino of Buffalo Spine Surgery, and a member of the medical staff of Buffalo Bills, is a surgeon who attended Everett, and described the injury to Everett's spinal cord as a "scissoring" or "pinching" injury, caused by the third dislocation and vertebrae the fourth cervix.
Cappuccino corrects fractures between the third and fourth vertebrae in a procedure that includes bone graft, plate insertion and four screws in the Everett spine column, and relief pressure on the spinal cord. Cappuccino reported that, immediately after the injury, Everett could not feel anything under his shoulder, but on the morning after surgery, he had some voluntary movements at his feet, and could feel the pressure "down to his feet." However, Cappuccino gives players a "very little statistic" opportunity to walk again.
Cappuccino initially stated that he believes Everett will suffer "permanent" neurological damage, and uses terms such as "gloom" and "gloom" to describe the prospect for cases that are explicitly described as "life-threatening", giving Everett less than 5-10 % chance of regaining full utilization of his physical abilities.
Until September 11, Everett remains in the respirator, but can breathe on his own while it is briefly switched off. Cappuccino describes Everett's breathing risk as one of the problems he describes as "life-threatening" and how techniques, such as the intravenous method of reducing Everett's body temperature in an effort to reduce swelling, are made to facilitate surgery. Cappuccino describes Everett as an "NFL athlete [with] a fighting mentality," which shows attention mainly to his family, and who asks doctors to do all they can for him.
WIVB-TV, a CBS affiliate in Buffalo, reported on September 11 that Everett has regained voluntary movements in his arms and legs, a huge increase compared to the prognosis given the previous day. Later, ESPN reports that Kevin's doctors are more optimistic about the power of the movement he gets; they claimed that he might get out of the hospital. Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine, said, "based on our experience, the fact that he is moving very well, so quickly after such a severe injury means he will walk again. When asked about Everett's chances for a full recovery, Green responded that, while "not 100 percent predictable," it was "feasible that he could live a normal life," and credited the hypothermic treatment of cold ice salt, given within minutes of Everett Injury, has become a significant factor in minimizing damage. Green is called this method as "ice pack for the spinal cord."
On September 12, the report by Dr. Cappuccino and neurosurgeon Dr. Kevin J. Gibbons was released via a press conference shown live on ESPN. Gibbons reports that Kevin has been able to slightly move his arms and legs and also wiggle his toes. However, he could not move his hand. When asked about the reports Dr. Barth Green earlier in the day in which Green stated that Everett is likely to be discharged from the hospital, Cappuccino said that it was just an opinion and that getting out of hospital was "unrealistic purpose" at this point. Gibbons says that now, the only thing they worry about is to make Kevin walk again. Also in the report, it was stated that Kevin had been excluded from the respirator and could breathe on his own. On September 14th, Fox Sports reported that Everett began to regain movement in his right hand. On September 17, 2007, he regained the movement in both his hands and steadily regained strength on his feet, and on September 20, Barth Green told Associated Press that Everett would be able to stand and run in a few weeks, and probably sooner.
On October 1, 2007, Everett has moved to Houston, near his family and outside the home, where he will start a long rehabilitation that the doctor believes will lead to eventually running again (they are "optimistic") and may even make a full recovery. Working in his favor is his age, the incomplete nature of his spine injury, his constitution, and his extraordinary physical condition at the time of his injury, as well as the prompt care he receives. On October 16, it was reported that Everett could run "to some extent." During the broadcast it was announced Everett had been released from Houston hospital to continue rehabilitation as an outpatient.
On December 7, Everett was able to walk in his own strength, but he did not have full movement. Everett appeared on the cover of the December 17th edition of Sports Illustrated , which contains articles about his injuries, rehabilitation and recovery. On Sunday, December 23, 2007, Kevin walked openly on the Ralph Wilson Stadium field in front of a number of fans for the last fight against the New York Giants. Incidentally, Domenik Hixon was in the Giants in the game after being released by the Broncos. On January 31, 2008, Everett received an invitation from NFL, Roger Goodell, to sit with him on Super Bowl XLII. That day, he also appeared on Oprah, obviously able to walk under his own power.
On April 9, 2008, Everett underwent more surgery to reduce the pain in his neck. On May 12, Everett was released by Buffalo Bills to enable him to be eligible to apply for a lifetime disability allowance immediately. The Bills save Everett on the active roster before releasing him to ensure that he completes three full NFL seasons, enabling him to qualify for a full retirement. On July 20, 2008 Everett was awarded the Jimmy V award for persistence at the 2008 ESPY Awards for his heroic recovery from a neck injury that threatened his chances of running again, challenging opportunities and "never giving up" - something that Jim Valvano himself said at the 1993 ESPY Awards. Everett is a grand marshal and gave the order to start the NASCAR Nationwide Series Zippo 200 engine at Watkins Glen on August 9, 2008.
In a report on buffalobills.com, Everett was interviewed in a story titled Kevin Everett Five Years Later . "Five years of this shot very quickly, it's hard to believe the truth," Everett told Buffalobills.com. "They're quick because I'm busy busy." "I'm glad people still remember me," he said. "I hope they can remember me to make goals and make big dramas for the bill but they still remember me as a person and what I experienced in my life so I really appreciate it and I love every fan out there who supports me. " Although the desire to play is still burning from time to time, it does not make Everett get closer to the game.
References
External links
- Buffalo Bills Monastery
- " High Stand: The Kevin Everett Story " By: Sam Carchidi, Triumph Books
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