Former Rutgers football standout Eric LeGrand honored with room naming at Hackensack Meridian rehabilitation institute

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Former Rutgers football standout Eric LeGrand honored with room naming at Hackensack Meridian rehabilitation institute
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A former Rutgers football standout who had a life-altering injury during a game over a decade ago got a special surprise and a lasting honor from his former coach. alecia__reid was there for the moving moment.

football standout who had a life-altering injury during a game a decade ago got quite the surprise from his former coach."Never in a million years did I think my name would be in a hospital like that," said former Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand.

"I made a promise to myself when I was in that hospital bed 12 and a half years ago that I wasn't going to live a miserable life," he said.LeGrand has had such an effect on the people around him, Rutgers Coach Gregory Schiano and his wife, Christy, donated a $250,000 gift to create the Eric LeGrand Spinal Cord Injury Patient Care Room at the Hackensack Meridian JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute.

The former football standout had a life-altering injury during a Rutgers game in 2010 that left him paralyzed from the neck down.

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