Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills safety who collapsed on the field Jan. 2 during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, was released from the intensive care unit at a Cincinnati hospital on Monday and has returned to Buffalo, the doctors who cared for him at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center announced during a news conference.
Hamlin, 24, has continued to improve since suffering cardiac arrest on the field last week. He was transferred to the Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute for ongoing care. Doctors in Cincinnati said that Hamlin was upgraded from critical condition on Monday morning and met several other requirements for transport, including no longer needing intensive nursing care or intensive respiratory therapy.