Kevin Everett was transferred on Friday to a Houston, Texas, hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation, less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
The ambulance that took Everett to Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital was followed by a car with two women inside, both wearing Everett jerseys. The women got out and watched as he was wheeled into the medical center.
Everett left Buffalo earlier on Friday in a private plane. He was joined by his mother, Patricia Dugas, and taken to the hospital's Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. Dugas, wearing a white Bills jersey, declined to talk with reporters.
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Everett spent two weeks at Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital. He was hurt making a tackle in the Bills' season opener against Denver on Sept. 9.
Initially fearing he would never walk again, doctors have since significantly upgraded their prognosis and plan to have Everett try to stand on his own in the next few days.
Barth Green, chairman of the neurological surgery department at the University of Miami school of medicine, said doctors are confident Everett could be walking within weeks, if not sooner.
"They're very confident he'll be walking very soon ... in the next days or weeks, not months," Green said on Thursday shortly after discussing Everett's condition with Bills orthopedic surgeon Andrew Cappuccino. "I think the future for him is very bright."
Green, co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, has been in constant contact with Everett's doctors.
And it was Green who suggested that Everett continue his rehabilitation in Houston, where he makes his offseason home, saying it's important for him to have his family and friends nearby.
"I love the Buffalo people and I'll hate to leave them," Everett's mother said on Thursday. "But it'll be good that we can be closer to home for all our family to come over and see him because they're worried about him. ... He wants to see his family, too."
NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw and association president Troy Vincent, a former teammate of Everett's in Buffalo, visited him on Thursday.
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