Damar Hamlin's family released a statement thanking fans and medical professionals at the University of Cincinnati Hospital after the Buffalo Bills safety was left in a critical condition. Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest after making a routine tackle on Cincinnati Bengals player Tee Higgins.
Fans inside the Paycor Stadium were stunned into silence as ambulance crews raced onto the turf to attend to Hamlin, who had fallen to the floor after getting up from making the tackle. Paramedics performed CPR on him for six minutes and restarted his heart using CPR and a defibrillator.
He was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to the University of Cincinnati Hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.
