Often an injury can be a career setback. For Arizona State wide receiver Kyle Williams it was a career catalyst.
Williams now views a separated shoulder that slowed him his freshman season as a blessing in disguise. Growing up he had always enjoyed math and science but never knew where those interests would lead him — that is until the injury paved the way for his first meeting with Dr. Anikar Chhabra, the Sun Devils team physician and the director of sports medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Tempe.
The doctor, a former basketball player at Harvard, helped Williams overcome the shoulder ailment and became a mentor in the process.