Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been cleared to return to the game and is attending the team’s voluntary workout program about four months after suffering cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati, general manager Brandon Beane said Tuesday.
“He is fully cleared to resume activity,” Beane said, with the team’s clearance after the player met with a third and final specialist on Friday.
Beane said all three specialists agreed that Hamlin can resume playing without any fear of setbacks or complications. Although the Bills had their own doctor at Hamlin’s meetings with specialists, Beane said the team follows the specialists’ lead.
Hamlin has made what doctors are calling a remarkable recovery since collapsing on the field after making what appeared to be a routine tackle in the first quarter of a Jan. 2 game against the Bengals, which was suspended and finally cancelled.
The second-year player out of Pittsburgh’s McKee’s Rock spent nearly 10 days recovering in hospitals in Cincinnati and Buffalo before being released. He eventually began visiting the Bills’ facility and attended the team’s 27-10 loss to Cincinnati in the divisional round of the playoffs.
Hamlin has made numerous appearances around the country, including meeting with President Joe Biden last month. During the Super Bowl festivities in Arizona in February, he received the NFLPA’s Alan Page Community Award. He also participated in a pregame ceremony in which the NFL honored the Bills and Bengals medical and training staff and the first responders who treated the 24-year-old.
Report from The Associated Press.
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