The Facts: Everett will be sedated for a day or two as doctors evaluate the extent of a severe spinal injury that could leave him paralyzed. "He'll be sedated for the next 24 to 48 hours and we won't know more until then," Eric Armstead, a partner of the player's agent Brian Overstreet, said. "We were told by the doctors that the surgery went well."

Diehards Line:Everett is in the intensive care unit at Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital after a four-hour operation performed hours after he was hurt in a season-opening loss to Denver. Overstreet told the AP late Sunday that his 25-year-old client had some "sparse movement. ..." We'll have more on Everett as developments warrant.