Drew Williams suffers setback; Lane Tech football player in coma after taking hit in game

By ABC7
October 31, 2013 (CHICAGO)

Seventeen-year-old Drew Williams from Lane Tech High School suffered bleeding on the brain after taking a hit and is in a coma.

According to a post on Williams' recovery Facebook page, the teen is returning to intensive care with an infection.

He had been released to rehab but was rushed back to the hospital to be treated.

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