On Sept. 26, in a game against the Georgia Bulldogs, Southern University’s Devon Gales was paralyzed while blocking during a kickoff return.
In the nearly two months since, Gales, 22, has endured surgery to stabilize his broken neck, a prognosis that he likely will never walk and long weeks away from home while laboring at Atlanta’s Shepherd Center to regain some movement in his quieted limbs.
The effects of his ordeal extend beyond his hospital room, beyond his team back in Baton Rouge, La., throughout the Georgia football community.
In Sunday's AJC and on myAJC.com, a look at the young man who has touched so many corners of college football, his straight-ahead approach to rehab and his now strong connections to the Bulldogs program.
In one of his first interviews since being taken out of Sanford Stadium on a backboard and stretcher, Gales can look on it all and still say, “I’m happy where I’m at now.”
» The Bulldogs have embraced Gales as their own. See how on myAJC
