Bills' Hamlin plays, completes comeback
Damar Hamlin was the last Buffalo Bills player to exit the tunnel and ran the length of the field with his arms spread out wide at his sides as if he were flying.
Hamlin's emotions soared Sunday as he suited up for his first regular-season game some nine months since having a near-death experience on the field at Cincinnati.
“Really big. That moment was everything to me,” Hamlin said after a 48-20 win over the visiting Miami Dolphins.
“I think it was more so about promising to myself than anything else, just showing myself that I have the courage, I have the strength, that I have the pride, everything, all those words, in me to be able to go through something traumatic and to be able to come back from it,” he added. “To be able to still do what I love at the highest level in the world is amazing.”
Hamlin's comeback from one the most terrifying moments in NFL history — he went into cardiac arrest and was resuscitated during a game at the Bengals on Jan. 2 — is now complete.
The third-year player took the field on the opening kickoff as part of Buffalo's return team. Hamlin didn't register a tackle with his role limited to special teams duty. It was still playing football, something the 25-year-old vowed he'd do after being cleared by doctors in April. STEELERS QB PICKETT INJURES KNEE❯❯ Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett sustained a knee injury in the third quarter against Houston and didn't return.
Trailing by 10, the Steelers went for it on fourth
and-1 from the Houston 33 with about 90 seconds left in the third quarter. But Pickett was sacked by Jonathan Greenard to give the Texans the ball back.
Pickett remained on the ground for a couple of minutes after the hit before trainers came out to attend to him. He slowly got to his feet and limped off the field before going into the medical tent on the sideline.
The team said he had a knee injury but did not specify which knee was injured.He was replaced by Mitch Trubisky. BILLS' WHITE FEARED LOST
FOR SEASON ❯❯ Buffalo Bills cornerback Tre'Davious White was carted off the field with what's feared to be a season-ending injury to his right Achilles tendon in Buffalo's game against Miami.
Coach Sean McDermott said White was still being evaluated after a 48-20 victory. McDermott then grew emotional when discussing a player who missed a calendar year after having surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right knee in December 2021.
White was hurt in the final minute of the third quarter while covering receiver Tyreek Hill up the right sideline. White suddenly pulled up favoring his right leg and fell to the turf. RODGERS REJOINS JETS ❯❯
Aaron Rodgers arrived at MetLife Stadium in a golf cart holding crutches and joined his New York Jets teammates before their game vs. Kansas City.
Rodgers had been healing and rehabilitating at home in Malibu after having surgery 21/2 weeks ago to repair a torn left Achilles tendon.