Student returns to American football team as coach after spinal cord injury

Archie Wills-Johnson (University of Bristol/PA)

By Claire Hayhurst, PA

A student who was forced to stop playing American football after suffering a spinal cord injury on the field has returned to his team as a coach.

Archie Wills-Johnson, who studies at the University of Bristol, had a section of the cartilage in his neck removed and replaced with titanium following the serious injury in December 2022.