Doctors ‘ecstatic’ at Damar Hamlin’s progress as player returns to Buffalo

• Bills safety suffered cardiac arrest during game last week
• Player thanks medical staff in Cincinnati for care

Doctors who treated Damar Hamlin said the Bills safety was back in Buffalo on Monday, an uplifting sign of the remarkable progress he has made a week after going into cardiac arrest on the field during a game in Cincinnati.

Hamlin was discharged from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center on Monday morning and flown to Buffalo, where Dr William Knight said he is doing well." The player will continue his recovery at a Buffalo hospital.