NFL says Payments-Bengals is not going to be resumed this week, league has not modified Week 18 schedule

Sooner or later, the NFL needed to determine what to do concerning the suspended Buffalo Payments-Cincinnati Bengals recreation from Monday night time.

It wasn’t necessary within the context of the well being of Payments security Damar Hamlin, who suffered cardiac arrest on the sector and needed to have his heartbeat restored earlier than he was taken in an ambulance to a neighborhood hospital. However the NFL season was going to proceed.

The NFL introduced on Tuesday afternoon that after dialogue with each groups and the NFLPA, the sport is not going to be resumed this week. The NFL additionally mentioned it hasn’t made any modifications to the Week 18 schedule. That opens up the potential of the sport not being performed in any respect, or the beginning of the playoffs being pushed again. The league mentioned no resolution has been made on the potential resumption of the sport at a later date.

The sport between the Payments and Bengals was a key one in shaping the AFC playoff race. The Payments had been 12-3 and the Bengals had been 11-4. The Bengals would have clinched the AFC North with a win. The Payments, Bengals and 12-3 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs had been all nonetheless alive for the No. 1 seed within the AFC.

The Bengals led Monday night time’s recreation 7-3 within the first quarter when Hamlin collapsed and the sport was suspended.

It’s uncommon for the NFL to cancel video games. There have been misplaced video games in 1982 and 1987 attributable to participant strikes. In 2020 and 2021, many video games had been rescheduled attributable to COVID-19 however all had been ultimately performed.