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Terrible news about Everett, just mentioned on the Fox post game show. Didn't see or hear about this from that game, didn't watch it.
Bill's TE Kevin Everett (spinal injury)
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Early reports are that it's a cervical spinal injury, possibly a crushed vertibrae 
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Was he moving when he was carted off??? Hope he is alright...
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It was a horrible day for the Bills. Losing a game, they should have won, on the last play of the game.
The devastating injury to Everett but they also lost starting FS Ko Simpson with what looked like a broken leg and OLB Coy Wire to some sort of knee injury.
The devastating injury to Everett but they also lost starting FS Ko Simpson with what looked like a broken leg and OLB Coy Wire to some sort of knee injury.
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They said he was having emergency surgery, I don't think he ever got feeling back. They're sure not reporting anything about that.
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You hate to hear the word "spine" and injury in the same sentence. I hope the guy is OK.
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Prayers that he comes through this ok.
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Just heard about it. I hope everything goes ok for him. Injury's suck.
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By Sal Maiorana
August 13, 2007) — PITTSFORD — It has already been quite a journey for Kevin Everett, but for the 25-year-old Bills tight end, it's a journey that has really only just begun.
"He's come a million miles, but I always follow that up with there's a million more miles to go," said Buffalo's tight ends coach, Charlie Coiner.
In other words, as Everett works out day to day in training camp at St. John Fisher College, he is finally starting to resemble the player the Bills thought they were getting in the third round of the 2005 draft.
However, he is far from a polished product and still has a lot to learn if he hopes to contribute to the Bills this season, or, as some have suggested, simply make the team.
Case in point was Buffalo's preseason opener Friday night. Everett didn't catch a pass, wasn't even thrown to, and contributed little to Buffalo's 13-10 victory.
"I just want to play like I know how to play," Everett said in a voice tinted with the frustration he has felt the past two years being a nonfactor in Buffalo. "Things take a little time, it's the NFL, so it's a whole lot different than college; there's a lot more things you have to know and it's a hard process."
It has just been a harder process for Everett.
Everett is a player who came to Buffalo with much fanfare when Tom Donahoe picked him. The Bills had been looking for a pass-catching tight end who could stretch the field since Jay Riemersma's departure in 2002.
Donahoe thought Everett would easily fit that bill because he had been a dynamic player at Miami who compared favorably to other Hurricane tight ends such as Jeremy Shockey, Kellen Winslow Jr. and Bubba Franks, all of whom were first-round NFL draft choices.
And then Everett stepped on the field at Ralph Wilson Stadium for his first mini-camp practice with the team that spring and blew out his knee in a routine noncontact drill. He was done for the season.
Donahoe was fired and coach Mike Mularkey resigned after the 2005 season, and in came Marv Levy and Dick Jauron. Everett, who without the benefit of on-field reps was just starting to grasp Mularkey's offensive scheme, had to learn a whole new system.
"I spent my first year rehabbing and learning Mike Mularkey's offense, and then having to come in and learn a whole new offense was kind of difficult," Everett admitted.
Robert Royal was acquired via free agency in 2006 and he won the starting tight end job. Ryan Neufeld and Brad Cieslak were often used as blockers, and Everett, struggling to understand his role, became an after-thought. He saw brief action in 15 games last year and caught just one pass for one yard.
"Last year, if you ask me what held him back, it was more the assignments, grasping the offense," said Coiner. "We do a lot of shifting and motion and when we do that the assignment might change from one play to the next and he struggled with that last year and then it's a snowball effect.
"This year he has grabbed the foundation of it. It can get real big for you if you get behind, but it can be simple when you compartmentalize things like he has this year. It's two different guys between last year and this year. He's going to be a player for us."
Perhaps, but Everett is facing some stiff competition for playing time.
"There's some good tight ends here, but I have to focus on what I can do and what I can bring to the table and not worry about the other stuff," he said. "I just want to leave all my ability out there and play hard."
The Bills will keep at least four tight ends and perhaps five this year because they have eliminated the fullback position and will rely on tight ends to line up in the backfield.
Neufeld, Cieslak and seventh-round draft pick Derek Schouman seem better-suited to the H-back role — the tight end who will start in the fullback position and either stay in to pass block, lead block on a run for Marshawn Lynch, or swing out into the pass pattern.
Everett is more comfortable in the traditional tight end spot on the end of the line, the same position Royal plays and six-year NFL veteran Matt Murphy is also contending for.
Because he has only had one year of playing time, and very limited at that, it seems unlikely the Bills would give up on Everett and release him. But he needs to start showing up on the game tape in preseason games, too.
"We really like his up side," said Jauron. "Last year was like his rookie year and it was a learning process for him. This year's he's got a better grasp of what he needs to do in the system so you see him making more plays. I think that we have a real shot with him to be a productive blocker and a pass receiver that can stretch a defense."
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/SPORTS03/708130312/tbd/
Everett is from Port Arthur, TX and went to Miami, FL.
August 13, 2007) — PITTSFORD — It has already been quite a journey for Kevin Everett, but for the 25-year-old Bills tight end, it's a journey that has really only just begun.
"He's come a million miles, but I always follow that up with there's a million more miles to go," said Buffalo's tight ends coach, Charlie Coiner.
In other words, as Everett works out day to day in training camp at St. John Fisher College, he is finally starting to resemble the player the Bills thought they were getting in the third round of the 2005 draft.
However, he is far from a polished product and still has a lot to learn if he hopes to contribute to the Bills this season, or, as some have suggested, simply make the team.
Case in point was Buffalo's preseason opener Friday night. Everett didn't catch a pass, wasn't even thrown to, and contributed little to Buffalo's 13-10 victory.
"I just want to play like I know how to play," Everett said in a voice tinted with the frustration he has felt the past two years being a nonfactor in Buffalo. "Things take a little time, it's the NFL, so it's a whole lot different than college; there's a lot more things you have to know and it's a hard process."
It has just been a harder process for Everett.
Everett is a player who came to Buffalo with much fanfare when Tom Donahoe picked him. The Bills had been looking for a pass-catching tight end who could stretch the field since Jay Riemersma's departure in 2002.
Donahoe thought Everett would easily fit that bill because he had been a dynamic player at Miami who compared favorably to other Hurricane tight ends such as Jeremy Shockey, Kellen Winslow Jr. and Bubba Franks, all of whom were first-round NFL draft choices.
And then Everett stepped on the field at Ralph Wilson Stadium for his first mini-camp practice with the team that spring and blew out his knee in a routine noncontact drill. He was done for the season.
Donahoe was fired and coach Mike Mularkey resigned after the 2005 season, and in came Marv Levy and Dick Jauron. Everett, who without the benefit of on-field reps was just starting to grasp Mularkey's offensive scheme, had to learn a whole new system.
"I spent my first year rehabbing and learning Mike Mularkey's offense, and then having to come in and learn a whole new offense was kind of difficult," Everett admitted.
Robert Royal was acquired via free agency in 2006 and he won the starting tight end job. Ryan Neufeld and Brad Cieslak were often used as blockers, and Everett, struggling to understand his role, became an after-thought. He saw brief action in 15 games last year and caught just one pass for one yard.
"Last year, if you ask me what held him back, it was more the assignments, grasping the offense," said Coiner. "We do a lot of shifting and motion and when we do that the assignment might change from one play to the next and he struggled with that last year and then it's a snowball effect.
"This year he has grabbed the foundation of it. It can get real big for you if you get behind, but it can be simple when you compartmentalize things like he has this year. It's two different guys between last year and this year. He's going to be a player for us."
Perhaps, but Everett is facing some stiff competition for playing time.
"There's some good tight ends here, but I have to focus on what I can do and what I can bring to the table and not worry about the other stuff," he said. "I just want to leave all my ability out there and play hard."
The Bills will keep at least four tight ends and perhaps five this year because they have eliminated the fullback position and will rely on tight ends to line up in the backfield.
Neufeld, Cieslak and seventh-round draft pick Derek Schouman seem better-suited to the H-back role — the tight end who will start in the fullback position and either stay in to pass block, lead block on a run for Marshawn Lynch, or swing out into the pass pattern.
Everett is more comfortable in the traditional tight end spot on the end of the line, the same position Royal plays and six-year NFL veteran Matt Murphy is also contending for.
Because he has only had one year of playing time, and very limited at that, it seems unlikely the Bills would give up on Everett and release him. But he needs to start showing up on the game tape in preseason games, too.
"We really like his up side," said Jauron. "Last year was like his rookie year and it was a learning process for him. This year's he's got a better grasp of what he needs to do in the system so you see him making more plays. I think that we have a real shot with him to be a productive blocker and a pass receiver that can stretch a defense."
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/SPORTS03/708130312/tbd/
Everett is from Port Arthur, TX and went to Miami, FL.
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God Bless Everett
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Prayers go out.
