It’s not clear how much he’ll play Sunday, but Damar Hamlin will log snaps he’ll never forget. With starting Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer expected to miss this weekend’s game against the Miami Dolphins, Hamlin is expected to dress and play against the NFL’s highest-scoring offense.
Hamlin, a Pittsburgh native who attended Pitt, suffered commotio cordis, a disruption of heart rhythm, in a Week 17 game last season against the Cincinnati Bengals. He will play in his first regular season game since that near-death experience. Hamlin, hit in the chest by Bengals’ WR Tee Higgins on a legal football play, flatlined on the field as Bills’ trainers and medical staff resuscitated him on the field.