Kavan Markwood, the former football player who fell from a 21-foot wall at a Pittsburgh Pirates game, is 'awake' but 'has a long road ahead,' his family said on Saturday, May 3.

Kavan Markwood, the 20-year-old Pirates fan​ who fell from the Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, took his first steps on Monday.

Kavan Markwood, a 20-year-old former high school and college athlete from the area, plummeted over a rail at PNC Park last Wednesday when the Pirates hosted the Chicago Cubs. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he has remained since.