NFL Despair: Damar Hamlin Decompensated After Tackle, Resuscitated, Was Removed By Ambulance

Despair. This is the word that sums up what happened this Monday night in the first quarter of the duel between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals. Player Damar Hamlin he collapsed mid-match after making a tackle: he had to be resuscitated and was transferred by ambulance in delicate condition.

It all happened with five minutes left in that first half, when Hamlin, playing defensively, got up to block the pass, stopped his crouching rival, with the misfortune that his head received the hardest impact. He stopped, took a few steps and fell backwards onto the grass.

The protocol was activated quickly, it took almost 10 minutes manual resuscitation and also the use of a defibrillator. The doctors who treated him reported it, according to the television broadcast he had a pulse but could not breathe on his own.

There was no official information so far, but the player was picked up by ambulance and transferred to the University of Cincinnati clinic.

“No one has experienced this”assured the former NFL quarterback Troy Aikman while broadcasting on ESPN.

“Never seen anything like it”He added.

Hamlin, 24, spent five years in college with his hometown Pitt and played 48 games with the Panthers in that time.

He was a sixth-round draft pick by the Bills in 2021, played 14 games as a rookie and became a starter this year after Micah Hyde was sidelined with an injury.

Before this duel, the safety of 1,82 meters and 90 kilograms added 91 tacklesof which 63 only and 1 1/2 bags.

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