BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Kevin Everett will be transferred Friday to a Houston hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation.

That’s less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end and special teams player sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.

Doctors said Thursday that they believe he will be walking within weeks — perhaps sooner.

Dr. Barth Green of the University of Miami Medical School spoke to the Associated Press shortly after discussing Everett’s condition with Bills surgeon Dr. Andrew Cappuccino. Green says the doctors plan to get Everett up on his feet soon.

Eric Armstead is a partner of Everett’s agent, Brian Overstreet. 

He said Everett’s going to Houston’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and would be traveling by private plane.

Everett was hurt while making a tackle in Buffalo’s season opener at home against Denver on Sept. 9. He arrived at Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital in Buffalo paralyzed from the neck down, and doctors initially expressed fears Everett would never walk again.

The former Port Arthur Jefferson High School star makes his off-season home in Houston, where family members and friends live.