Oklahoma State football: Andrew Hudson and where 'the Lord was leading me'

ANDREW HUDSON — The concussion that ended Andrew Hudson's Oklahoma State football career sent him on a path toward a Kansas family suffering from a far greater tragedy.

 
By Jenni Carlson | Published: December 23, 2011    Comment on this article Leave a comment

ANDREW HUDSON'S NEW PATH

A few weeks after suffering a concussion that would eventually end his football career at Oklahoma State, Andrew Hudson learned about the tragic story of Nathan Stiles. The senior football player at Spring Hill High School in Kansas collapsed during a game and died early the next morning. He was playing with an undetected subdural hematoma, the result of a brain injury that leaves blood on the brain.

photo - Andrew Hudson has joined the Cowboys track team throwing the discus. Photo Provided
Andrew Hudson has joined the Cowboys track team throwing the discus. Photo Provided

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When Hudson heard Stiles' story, he knew he had to do something. The result has been an unexpected connection that Hudson describes here in his own words:

Nathan's whole reason for living was to tell people about the Lord, so through his death, his parents honored his life by starting a thing called the Nathan Project. Everyone who decided to commit to a relationship with the Lord ... they'd buy them a Bible. Four weeks after Nathan had passed away … they had already purchased like 1,600 Bibles.

I felt like the Lord was leading me to do something, so … I ended up messaging his dad (on Facebook). I just kind of told him my position … and let him know that I needed to talk to him. He said, “You know, you seem like a neat young man. I'd like to talk to you.” I told him, “Well, sir, I'm not opposed to driving up there.”

I tell this dad I've never met and this family I've never known in a state I've never been to that I'm going to come see them.

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