AU FOOTBALL: Etheridge confident he’ll be able to return to field
For the first couple of months after his horrific neck injury, Zac Etheridge couldn’t look anywhere but straight ahead.
His head stabilized by a bulky, two-piece neck brace, Etheridge needed to shift his entire body just to look left or right. To peer behind, he had to do a complete 180-degree turn — a surprisingly difficult maneuver for a player who, months earlier, was smashing into running backs who started a play on the opposite side of the field.
So Etheridge stared forward, focused first on recovering all the strength he lost from months of inactivity and then on the improbable comeback to the football field he expects to make in the fall.
“Once I got that off, I’ve been focused on moving forward and not having to look back,” Etheridge said. “The only reason I think about the neck is because everybody asks me about it.
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