He has been communicating via writing since Wednesday night.
Bills safety Damar Hamlin asked who won the Bengals-Buffalo game when he woke up from his medically induced sedation, Dr. Timothy Pritts of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said Thursday.
“Our response was: ‘Damar, you won. You won the game of life,’” Pritts said, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.
Pritts clarified that Hamlin cannot talk and has a breathing tube in, but he has been communicating via writing since Wednesday night.
The news comes just hours after the Bills said that Hamlin has shown “remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours.”
“While still critically ill, he has demonstrated that he appears to be neurologically intact,” the team said in a statement. “His lungs continue to heal and he is making steady progress.”
Hamlin collapsed in Paycor Stadium during the first quarter of Monday night’s game against Cincinnati. Medical personnel administered CPR and other life-saving measures on Hamlin, who was resuscitated once on the field, per the safety’s family friend and marketing representative Jordon Rooney.
He was then taken to the hospital via ambulance, where he has remained in critical condition. It was later determined he went into cardiac arrest.
