Peyton Hillis, a former Arkansas and NFL running back, has been discharged from a Pensacola, Fla., hospital a little over two weeks after reportedly saving his two children after a swimming accident.
on Facebook, saying that she suddenly found they were all yards from shore. “I’ll never forget the relief I felt when I saw my mama coming towards me and helping me out of the water. She literally had to pull me by my hair because I couldn’t lift my arm up to her but, man, it was the best hair pull of my life!!!! ... I remember seeing Peyt laid out on the sand unable to move and my mom having to run back and forth between us as the medics helped each of us.
Hillis was taken by helicopter to the hospital and had been on a ventilator. Cole wrote in a Jan. 11 Instagram post that he’d since been taken off it, and was “on the road to recovery.”Cole wrote . “Peyton is off the ventilator and is on the road to recovery. Please continue to pray for he’s still got a ways ahead of him, but thank you for all of your prayers and love and support thus far. It truly makes all the difference. Today was a good day.”that the former player’s two children, whom Peyton shares with his ex-wife, Amanda, were “physically unhurt.”
Peyton Hillis was a seventh-round draft pick by the Denver Broncos in 2008 and also played for the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants, retiring after the 2014 season. He rushed for 2,832 yards and caught 134 passes for 1,050 yards over a career in which he scored 26 total touchdowns. He rushed for a career-high 1,177 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2010, and was chosen to be on the cover of the “Madden NFL” video game the following year.
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