Tulane Player Stable Following Spine Surgery for Game-day Injury

It remains to be seen how serious Tulane University football player Devon Walker’s injury is and whether it will leave him paralyzed following a tackle that occurred during Saturday’s game against the University of Tulsa. The senior safety’s injury occurred when Tulsa quarterback Cody Green tossed a short pass to teammate Willie Carter, who caught it at about the 28-yard line and turned upfield; he was tackled around the 17-yard line, with defensive tackle Julius Warmsley and Walker sandwiching him and, apparently, smashing their helmets together. Medical personnel from both teams tended to Walker as he lay on the field before he was taken away in an ambulance.

As of today, Walker is in stable condition and recovering in an intensive-care unit after a three-hour surgery to stabilize his spine at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, according to Greg Stewart, MD, Tulane’s director of sports medicine. “These kind of injuries take 24, 48, sometimes 72 hours to fully declare themselves,” Stewart said before the surgery. “We don’t know what the long-term implications and outcomes are going to be.” For more information, click here to read the full article.