Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills with a serious injury in tonight’s MNF game. After a hit to the head/neck, he got up and then collapsed. Ambulance was on the field performing CPR for nearly 10 minutes. Game delayed. This may be the worst of the worst.
I wonder if it was an injury similar to D.J. Hayden’s. He tore his inferior vena cava in his heart after taking a knee to the chest in practice and almost died.
ETA: I guess not if the hit was in the head/neck area.
This reminds me of a bad memory from HS that had a happy ending. Good friend of mine had an aneurysm on the football field about 5 feet in front of me. There were several doctors in the stands, life flight landed at the 50 yard line. If it had happened just about anywhere else he would not have survived.
Speculation on Twitter is “commotio cordis” (blow to the chest over the heart) (why some baseball players wear small chest protectors) ETA Thanks spelling HH