Domenik Hixon’s 2007 season began on about as dark a note as anyone could have imagined. While returning a kick Week 1 for the Denver Broncos, he attempted to break a tackle from Buffalo’s Kevin Everett. Their helmets collided, and Everett sustained a spinal injury that nearly took his life.
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And four weeks later, Hixon was released–without a team, and still shaken by the confusion and guilt in one of the most horrific plays in NFL history. But it was from there that the Giants scooped him up, and Hixon would have brighter days ahead.