Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette, who left a game on a stretcher in November after suffering a serious neck injury, recently visited Redmond Fire Station 11 and told a poignant story of how close he was to dying on the field last year.
In a video posted on the Facebook page of the Redmond firefighters and paramedics, Lockette said his doctor explained to him how close he was to dying in Dallas on Nov. 1 and how the medical staff’s training saved his life.
“He said if I would have stood up then, the weight of my head — left, right, front, back — I would have died,” said Lockette, who still was wearing a neck brace. “If one of my teammates would have came over and pulled my arm, just barely, I might have died. Or if the returner at the time would have broken a couple of tackles and they would have fell on me, I would have died on that field.
