Bills safety Damar Hamlin has secured a starting position in Buffalo’s secondary.
Hamlin is listed as one of the two starting safeties on the Bills’ official depth chart. When reporters asked head coach Sean McDermott about Hamlin’s role, he spoke highly of Hamlin’s achievements since he experienced a cardiac arrest on the field in a game in Cincinnati a year and a half ago.
“Damar Hamlin will start,” McDermott said. “What else can’t this young man do? He went through what he went through on the field, you guys have written about that over and over, and to come back from that — it’s one thing to come back from an ACL or a broken bone.
It’s another thing to come back off what he came back off. Let alone to decide to play football, and contact football, in full pads at the NFL level — I don’t think I need to say anything more. It’s incredible.”
Last season, Hamlin was widely praised for returning to the field, but he played in only five games, mostly on special teams, and was not a starter.
This offseason, Hamlin has received praise for his ongoing hard work, and now he is a starter.
