Damar Hamlin expected to play in Bills’ preseason opener in latest recovery step

Damar Hamlin’s comeback is anticipated to hit one other milestone Saturday afternoon.

Payments coach Sean McDermott told the Associated Press that Hamlin, who suffered cardiac arrest on the sphere throughout a recreation towards the Bengals on Jan. 2, is scheduled to start out Buffalo’s first preseason recreation towards the Colts.

“That is to some extent uncharted territory for me as effectively, and all of us. So we’re simply attempting to do the very best we are able to to be there for him,” McDermott informed reporters earlier this week.

“I attempt to preserve an in depth eye on the place he’s and the place he’s exhibiting up and the way he’s responding. And he’s finished an ideal job.”

Hamlin collapsed on the field after making a seemingly routine sort out on Bengals wideout Tee Higgins in early January.

He mentioned earlier this week that he’s attempting to take his comeback one step at a time.

“Making an attempt to look ahead, it simply creates quite a lot of anxiousness, quite a lot of pointless emotions,” Hamlin mentioned.

“If you happen to keep within the second, it means that you can course of it while you’re there.”

Hamlin was fully cleared to rejoin the Bills in April.

Payments GM Brandon Beane mentioned that Hamlin was cleared by three separate specialists.

”They’re all in settlement — it’s not two to 1 or three to 1 or something like that — they’re all in lockstep of what this was and that he’s cleared to renew full actions similar to anybody else that was getting back from an harm,” Beane mentioned on the time.

“He’s absolutely cleared. He’s right here. And he’s of the mindset — he’s in an ideal headspace — to return again and make his return.”

There was a very heartwarming scene when Hamlin intercepted a pass in a coaching camp apply earlier this month.