Dan Smoker Sr. still does not know that Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey was among the seven people that rescued him after he suffered life-threatening injuries in a fall during a Saturday hike with his grandson at Castle Rock, Colorado.
The 72-year-old Smoker Sr. remains in critical but stable condition at Sky Ridge Medical Center in the Denver area even though on Tuesday he was taken off the ventilator he had been on since the accident.
Smoker Sr. suffered a broken femur, pelvis and neck, nine fractured ribs and had internal bleeding on the brain from the 20-foot fall.