From NBC Philadelphia

The former football star who made an inspirational recovery from a paralyzing game injury in 2000 won a seat on the Gloucester County Board of Freeholders Tuesday.

Eleven years ago, Adam Taliaferro suffered a spinal cord injury while making a tackle on the field in only his fifth game as a Penn State cornerback, with doctors fearing he may never walk again.

Tuesday, the Voorhees native won a seat on the Gloucester County Board of Freeholders with the most votes overall with 234 of 235 precincts reporting (as of 10:09 p.m.). Fellow Democrats Heather Simmons and Lyman Barnes won the other two seats open (maintaining Democratic control) in a race that also included Republicans Barb Capelli, Penni Heritage and Mike Pantaleo.

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Taliaferro, now fully recovered from the injury, graduated from Penn State and then went on to law school at Rutgers-Camden University. Now a lawyer at Duane Morris in Cherry Hill specializing in labor and gaming law, he recently embarked on a political career as a Democratic candidate for the Gloucester County Board of Freeholders.

“My goal was always to play in the National Football League,” Taliaferro told Philly.com in mid-October. “When that was taken away, I had to step back and see what my life’s goal was. I realized that, in fact, I was one of the most blessed people. I was the product of the people who helped me all those years.”

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