NFL: Bills’ Everett travels to Houston

Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett returned to his native Texas on Friday to be closer to his family for the next phase of his recovery from a life-threatening spinal cord injury.

“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.

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