Article: Child, 4, OK after collision at game

Caden Thomas, a 4-year-old boy who was inadvertently run over by a receiver during a spring football game at Colorado State, has 30 stitches in his head, but he's recovering well, his father said Tuesday.

It was the spring youth football festival at Colorado State on Saturday, and young Thomas was wandering along the sidelines with his father during the team's intrasquad game. They were near the end zone when George Hill crashed into him as he was trying to make a touchdown catch.

"Well, there's the sickening thud," Caden's father, Michael Thomas, said Tuesday. "I was just tremendously worried about the rest of his life. You make automatic assumptions there will be some damage when you see ...

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