Bills safety Damar Hamlin is fully cleared to return to the field after seeing his specialist last Friday, general manager Brandon Beane said Tuesday.
According to Beane, Hamlin is already back working out with the rest of the team during the voluntary portion of the offseason.
“He is fully cleared to resume activity,” Beane said, with the clearance coming from the team after the player met with a third and final specialist on Friday.
Beane said all three specialists were in agreement that Hamlin can resume playing without any fear of setbacks or complications. While the Bills had their own doctor sit in on Hamlin’s meetings with specialists, Beane said the team is following the lead of the specialists.
Hamlin has enjoyed what doctors called “a remarkable recovery” since collapsing on the field after going into cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on field in January after making what appeared to be a routine tackle in the first quarter of a game against the Bengals which was suspended and eventually canceled.
The second-year player from Pittsburgh spent nearly 10 days recovering in hospitals in both Cincinnati and Buffalo before being released.
He was discharged from Buffalo General Medical Center on Jan. 11, just five days after his doctors said the player was breathing on his own, walking, talking and showing no signs of neurological damage.
Hamlin has since 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 took part in a pregame ceremony in which the NFL honored the Bills’ and Bengals’ training and medical staffs and first responders who treated the 24-year-old.
