Following the game Sunday night, Broncos returner Domenik Hixon e-mailed the Bills’ public relations staff to pass on his thoughts for Buffalo’s Kevin Everett, who suffered a spinal cord injury and is recovering from surgery.
“We just told him we were praying for him and whenever the time was right, I’d like to talk to him,” Hixon said.
Everett suffered the injury while tackling Hixon following the second half’s opening kickoff. Knocked backward by Everett’s hit, Hixon didn’t initially realize that the Buffalo player laying motionless on the field after the play was the player who hit him.
“Whoever hit me, it was solid and shot me down,” Hixon said. “It was a hard hit.”
After the surgeon initially said Monday that Everett likely would be permanently paralyzed, Everett moved his arms and legs Tuesday and there is hope he will be able to walk out of Buffalo’s Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital.
“It’s a blessing,” Hixon said.
Broncos coach Mike Shana- han thought it was a blessing that developed into something greater.
“I believe that the prayers from people around the country, you believe in miracles and that’s a miracle,” Shana- han said. “For him to have feelings in his legs and (arms), I believe through prayer, people actually got it done, because he wasn’t supposed to have those feelings this early or have the feeling at all.
“Everybody was very excited in our locker room when we heard the news.”
