Born without hands, a 10-year-old player on a Deer Park youth football team inspires...
Jaxon Payton was the intended receiver in the end zone for this point-after touchdown attempt in a recent game against the Baytown Broncos.When Deer Park Junior Seminole football coaches teach the fundamentals of catching a football to young receivers, Jaxon Payton, 10, pays no attention to the instructions.
A rare defect that occurs in one out of every 1,200 and 15,000 births, the syndrome occurs when the inner layer of the mother's placenta becomes damaged during pregnancy, and strands of tissue — amniotic bands — form inside the sac. They get tangled around a body part of the developing fetus, cutting off blood supply.
"I think about the game mostly," said the boy, who is preparing for a game Saturday when the Junior Seminoles play in the South Texas Youth Football Association playoffs at Friendswood Junior High School. Keith Payton said that when his son was 2 or 3, he did occupational therapy at Shriners Hospital for Children.
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