CINCINNATI (WIVB) -- UC Health officials said that Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been released from the hospital on Monday morning and flew back to Buffalo, health officials said.
This comes one week after Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest while on the field with the Bills in their game against the Bengals, which was later canceled after being postponed. Since then, he was in the care of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He will be transferred to another hospital in Buffalo.
Doctors said that Hamlin began walking on Friday, which is also when a breathing tube got taken out. They say that his recovery is on a normal-to-accelerated path and did not suffer a spine injury.
Doctors said that when Bills running back Nyheim Hines ran back the opening kickoff in the Bills' 35-23 win against the New England Patriots, Hamlin was jumping around and yelling, which set off "every" alarm in the ICU in the process.
"He was fine, it was just an appropriate reaction to a very exciting play," a doctor said.
"There is no reason to believe he won't continue his path to recovery," one doctor said, but said it is "entirely premature" to determine if Hamlin will be able to play football again.
Hamlin tweeted on Monday afternoon shortly after the news was announced, "Headed home to Buffalo today with a lot of love on my heart. Watching the world come together around me on Sunday was truly an amazing feeling. The same love you all have shown me is the same love I plan to put back into the world [and] more. Bigger than football!" He said that he is being treated at Buffalo General Hospital.
In a conference that took place this past Thursday, doctors William Knight IV and Timothy Pritts announced that Hamlin was not yet able to speak, due to having a breathing tube, but was able to communicate through writing.
The following day, he was taken off a ventilator and able to speak. The 24-year-old is in his second season as an NFL player. Both years have been with the Bills.
On Sunday, the Bills kept the New England Patriots out of the playoffs with a 35-23 victory that included two kickoff return touchdowns by Nyheim Hines.
The doctors who spoke during Thursday's conference plan to share more details on Hamlin's health in a conference set to take place Monday at 3 p.m. We will stream it live on this page.
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