Bills’ Everett injures spine, has surgery

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Kevin Everett had surgery Sunday evening, hours after the Buffalo Bills reserve tight end showed no signs of movement after sustaining a cervical spine injury in the team’s season opener against Denver.

Bills spokesman Scott Berchtold said he was informed by the team’s medical staff the player went into surgery at about 8 p.m. Berchtold said he had no further information, and didn’t know whether Everett had shown any signs of movement since he was driven off the field in an ambulance.

At 9:45 p.m., as he was leaving Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital, Bills’ tight end Ryan Neufeld told Buffalo’s WIVB-TV the surgery “went well as far as we can tell and he’s recovering right now.”