Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott confirmed Wednesday that safety Damar Hamlin has returned to team facilities on nearly a daily basis.
This comes eight days since Hamlin was discharged from a Buffalo hospital after being treated for cardiac arrest. Hamlin collapsed on the field during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2.
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McDermott said during a press conference that Hamlin is getting back into the routine of an NFL player and is becoming acclimated by “a baby step at a time.” Hamlin has not yet returned to meetings, however.
“I think the guys are at a good spot,” McDermott said of his team’s reaction to Hamlin’s recovery. “As he continues to improve, I think that certainly helps. That experience — we’ll carry that with us. There’s a challenge to that, but there’s also a lot of good to that.”
When asked what good came out of the experience of witnessing their teammate be taken off the field in a stretcher, McDermott said his players were able to “put aside their agendas for the common good of accomplishing one goal.”
“When you can go through life — 48 years — and not really have an experience like that and then that happens, you know that God’s real, you know that there’s power in prayer and that miracles do happen,” McDermott said. The Buffalo Bills coach led the team in prayer shortly after Hamlin suffered his cardiac arrest.
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Quarterback Josh Allen similarly said that the experience, coupled with his coach’s example of prayer, reignited his own faith.
Hamlin is in his second NFL season.
