Dion Dawkins: Buffalo Payments participant describes second he realized 'one thing is actually, actually flawed' after Damar Hamlin's collapse

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Buffalo Payments offensive deal with Dion Dawkins has recalled the second he realized one thing was “actually, actually flawed” after teammate Damar Hamlin collapsed on the sector towards the Cincinnati Bengals.

Hamlin stays in hospital and in a crucial situation after struggling a cardiac arrest in Monday’s recreation. His uncle, Dorrian Glenn, advised Muricas News that Hamlin remains to be sedated having been resuscitated twice – on the sector after which on the hospital.

The sport was subsequently postponed with gamers from each groups visibly distraught.

“You go searching and also you see the medical workers doing their job, and you recognize when it’s one thing minor like any individual is down, however they’re sitting up, the fellows are shifting at a pleasant tempo,” Dawkins advised Muricas News’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday.

“However when issues like this are happening, they’re waving actually quick and calling guys on the sector and calling for the elite medical workers – that’s while you actually understand that one thing is actually, actually flawed.

“This was one of many first experiences for myself the place one thing like this has occurred in such a manner, the place it silenced a complete stadium that was at an uproar half a play earlier.”

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In accordance with Glenn, Hamlin is on a ventilator to alleviate among the pressure on his lungs, which have been broken following the cardiac arrest. He stated his nephew’s situation is “trending upwards in a constructive manner” whereas receiving remedy in hospital.

For Dawkins, who's in his sixth season with the Payments, the gravity of the state of affairs instantly made him flip to prayer.

“Whether or not you’re a believer or not, solely the next energy can actually take management of what's subsequent,” he stated.

“Our those who helped additionally assisted that increased energy. However in that second you form of simply must be weak and let prayer go up and work its magic.”

On Tuesday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated the sport between the Payments and the Bengals is not going to be resumed this week, including that no determination has been made on when it could be performed.

“I’m actually blessed that we didn’t must maintain enjoying,” stated Dawkins.

“The truth that we didn't have to return on the market on that subject and play simply exhibits that there's care, and that’s all we will ever ask for is that we get handled as folks,” he added.

“Most individuals simply deal with us as athletes, as superstars, and a few folks like celebrities, however in that second they [the NFL] handled us like folks. And being handled as an individual that's cared for, it’s an attractive feeling.

“I’m grateful that I used to be handled as an individual and so had been the remainder of my teammates as a result of on the finish of the day, we're folks. And we've got emotions, we've got feelings, we cry, we harm. And we've got households, and so they harm, and so they cry.”