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College football player undergoes emergency surgery to save leg following gruesome injury
By Keith Farner
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One of the more gruesome injuries in football happened to a Grambling State player on Saturday.
Safety Danquarian Fields had emergency surgery on his injured right leg Saturday night and will be out for the rest of the season, coach Broderick Fobbs told the Monroe News-Star.
Fields suffered the severe injury to his right leg on the last play of the first quarter in a game at Louisiana Tech. The safety attempted to make a tackle on Tech running back Israel Tucker and his leg gave way. Because of the severity of the injury, Fobbs said the doctors told him he needed surgery to save his right leg.
“I went to Shreveport last night. They airlifted him from Ruston to Shreveport,” Fobbs said. “They were concerned about the artery in the back of the leg because of the dislocation and the damage done to it. He had emergency surgery last night. They took a vein graft from his left groin and inserted it where the artery in the back of the leg was damage.”
Fortunately, Fields has feeling and has a pulse in his leg, the coach said, which was a concern because doctors said there was no blood flow following the injury.
“The good news after surgery, they believe he should make a full recovery,” the coach said. “But he’s in for a long, long recovery process.”
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A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
