Bills Player Damar Hamlin Collapses On Field, NFL Game Temporarily Suspended – Deadline

Monday Night Football got here to a whole halt when Bills security Damar Hamlin collapsed on the sphere after making a deal with towards the Bengals.

The second occurred in the course of the first quarter with lower than 6 minutes remaining. Hamlin tackled huge receiver Tee Higgins, he was capable of get up after however then collapsed.

First responders rushed to the sphere to assist the 24-year-old participant and administered CPR for a number of minutes. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.

“It’s something like we’ve never seen happen before. I’ve never seen it, I’ve never been a part of it, never heard about it. … All you can do is pray for this gentleman right now. … That’s somebody’s son, somebody’s brother, somebody’s father — they want to know what’s going on,” ESPN studio analyst Booger McFarland stated.

Adam Schefter added, “Chilling to watch it. And in the day and age we live in, you can just see on social media [that] every single team, every single player, every single person offering up their prayers for Damar Hamlin. … The game is so secondary to everything else. No one cares about the game right no, everybody cares about this young man, his family and finding out how he’s doing.”

Players from each groups had been distraught by what had simply transpired with their colleague and a few had been even seen crying.