(September 21, 2007)--Kevin Everett has arrived at a Houston hospital to begin the next phase of his rehab from a life-threatening spinal injury.

Crews unloaded the Buffalo Bills tight end and special-teams player from an ambulance and wheeled him into Memorial Hermann Hospital Friday morning after he arrived by private plane from Buffalo, N.Y.

With Everett is his mother, Patricia Dugas. The former Port Arthur Jefferson High School player is to be assigned to the Institute for Rehabilitation at the Houston hospital.

The former Port Arthur Jefferson High School player transferred Friday to a Houston 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.

Everett had been in Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital for almost two weeks, paralyzed from the neck down.

He was hurt making a tackle in the Bills' season opener against Denver on Sept. 9.

Doctors initially feared that he'd never walk again.

This week, though, they've upgraded their prognosis significantly and foresee having Everett try to stand on his own in the next few days.

Everett was a defensive tight end at Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur who earned All-State honors in Class 5A in 2000 with 49 solo tackles, eight tackles for losses and six quarterback sacks.

T-shirts being sold to honor the injured football player are selling briskly at several locations in western New York.

The team is selling T-shirts with Everett's name and number 85 on the back and inspirational words on the front for $20 apiece.

The shirts are being sold in the Buffalo area and at the team's store at the Rochester area's Eastview Mall, where 100 of the items were sold Thursday.

The shirts are also available on the Bills Web site.

All the proceeds go toward spinal cord injury treatment and research.

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