Damar Hamlin attends Payments-Bengals playoff sport 3 weeks after on-field collapse

Damar Hamlin was at Highmark Stadium on Sunday afternoon, visiting along with his Buffalo Bills teammates earlier than their divisional playoff sport in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals, simply three weeks after he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest on the sector throughout Monday Night time Soccer.

The Payments posted a video of Hamlin getting into the stadium on a crew golf cart earlier than the sport started. His mom and youthful brother are additionally in attendance.

Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field after taking successful on to the chest on Jan. 2 when the Payments had been taking part in the Bengals in Cincinnati. The Bengals medical workers and emergency responders got here to Hamlin’s facet inside 60 seconds and needed to restart his coronary heart earlier than giving him CPR for practically 10 minutes, when he was loaded into an ambulance and brought to the College of Cincinnati Medical Middle.

The short response of the on-site medical workers and emergency personnel saved Hamlin’s life. Inside a day he was responding positively, and shortly after he was awake, speaking, and tweeting. He was watching from his hospital mattress on Jan. 8 when the Payments performed their first sport since Hamlin’s collapse, scoring a kickoff return landing on the very first play of the sport and once more later within the sport.

Hamlin was discharged from the hospital in Cincinnati per week after his collapse, then spent a number of days in a Buffalo hospital earlier than being discharged on Jan. 11 to continue his rehab at home. Since then, Hamlin has been making frequent journeys to the Payments facility and persevering with to rehab.

Hamlin’s restoration to date has been unimaginable, and his story has impressed coaches, gamers, and followers all around the NFL, nevertheless it’s most significant for the Payments. Having Hamlin again within the constructing throughout a playoff sport — particularly one which’s a rematch of the groups that performed when Hamlin initially received injured — will flip this playoff sport into an necessary second in Payments franchise historical past, irrespective of the way it ends.