As for the signs that Hamlin's neurological information and relation are intact, Pritts shared that the NFL player "was capable to look and travel commands" past nighttime and adjacent asked successful penning who won the game, which was postponed pursuing his collapse.

"To paraphrase 1 of our partners, when helium asked, 'Did we win?' the reply is 'Yes, Damar. You won. You've won the crippled of life,'" helium said. "And that's astir apt the astir important happening retired of this and we truly request to support him astatine the halfway of everything other that's going on. And we truly privation to guarantee a bully result for him."

Pritts besides shared that Hamlin is moving his hands and feet. However, he added that the 24-year-old is not speaking yet arsenic he's inactive using a breathing tube.

In presumption of adjacent steps, Pritts said the aesculapian squad would similar to spot Hamlin start breathing connected his own. As for when Hamlin whitethorn beryllium capable to instrumentality to the football field, Knight said "it's wholly excessively aboriginal to person that conversation."

Hamlin suffered a cardiac apprehension aft a deed during the Buffalo Bills' crippled against the Cincinnati Bengals astatine Paycor Stadium connected Jan. 2. The NFL noted the jock received "immediate aesculapian attraction connected the tract by squad and autarkic aesculapian unit and section paramedics" aft his collapse. Hamlin's doctors praised the quick medical involution pursuing his on-field collapse. 

"It was promptly recognized by the Buffalo Bills' aesculapian unit and that allowed for a precise contiguous resuscitation connected the field," Knight, the Director of the Emergency Medicine MLP Program, said. "He was promptly resuscitated. It did necessitate CPR and defibrillation, and astatine which constituent helium was transported to University of Cincinnati Medical Center wherever helium was met by Dr. Pritts and the trauma squad arsenic good arsenic our Emergency Medicine colleagues. He was managed and resuscitated and worked up successful the exigency department, had immoderate further tests successful the ED and successful the infirmary and past has been managed successful the surgical ICU."

And when Knight was asked if the aesculapian squad could consciousness the prayers and enactment sent their and Hamlin's way, helium said they did.

"Have we felt it? Yeah," helium replied. "It doesn't instrumentality agelong to look extracurricular and spot the lights, the bluish and the red, astir the metropolis of Cincinnati, the enactment from section restaurants, the enactment from the fans and conscionable radical who are concerned. So yes, it's been precise powerful."