MOBILE, Alabama - Daphne High School assistant football coach and history teacher Jacy Todd’s condition improved from critical to serious over the weekend.

Todd was injured in a two-vehicle traffic incident on Hwy. 181 near Interstate 10 in the Malbis area Wednesday morning.

He was life-flighted to USA Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition with spinal injury, collapsed lung, broken ribs, and head laceration, along with multiple impact trauma.

Daphne head football coach and athletic director Glenn Vickery was encouraged by improvements in his assistant coach’s vital signs and less dependence on a ventilator.

“The last visit was very encouraging,” Vickery said. “He is completely off the blood pressure medicine.”

A website, Caringbridge.org, has been set up for friends to follow Jacy and the difficult journey ahead for him, his wife Dyeatra and their family.

The site states, “Please pray for wisdom for Dyeatra. Things are moving very quickly and she has a lot of decisions to make. She is feeling overwhelmed. The night nurse told her they would try to wean him off the ventilator within 24 hours of surgery and discuss transporting him to rehab 72 hours after that.”

That surgery was slated for Tuesday. Another update Monday morning on the site also indicated that Todd's spinal damage is severe and returning to coaching and teaching is not in the near future.

Vickery said the rest of his staff and players would be praying for Todd and honoring him by going forward with football practice this week, but it would not be easy for any of them.

“Tough times on the field,” he said.

A spokesperson with the Daphne Police Dept., said the incident remains under investigation and open.

“He’s everything you can ask for in a coach and educator,” Vickery said. “We’re praying, we’re asking everybody to say a prayer for him to get back to his family and to get back to what he loves doing.”