Latest details on Damar Hamlin: Family of Bills player releases statement, team offers update on his health

Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Pick Six Newsletter. 

There’s only one story that matters in the NFL right now and that’s the health of Bills safety Damar Hamlin. 

What happened to Hamlin on Monday night was difficult to watch and it’s a reminder that NFL players are risking their health with every snap of the ball. We’ve seen some serious injuries over the years, but none of them were like the one suffered by Hamlin, who actually went into cardiac arrest on the field after taking a shoulder to the chest. It was an emotional situation that wasn’t easy for anyone to watch and it was one of the scariest moments in NFL history. 

We’ll be covering everything we know about Hamlin’s situation in today’s newsletter, and we’ll have some other football stuff — but that doesn’t really matter right now. 

1. Latest details on Damar Hamlin

Last night’s game gave us one of the scariest moments in NFL history when Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field after making a tackle on Tee Higgins during the first quarter at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. 

Here’s a quick timeline and everything we currently know about the situation: 

• Hamlin collapses on the field. The incident happened after Tee Higgins caught a pass from Joe Burrow. Hamlin went in for the tackle and took a shot to the chest. Hamlin went down while making the tackle, but then immediately shot back up like everything was fine. However, just a few seconds later, he collapsed on the field. 
• Hamlin taken to hospital. The Bills safety went down at 8:55 p.m. ET and by 9:25 p.m. ET, he was already in an ambulance on the way to the University of Cincinnati medical center. During the nearly 30 minutes he was on the field, Hamlin was given immediate medical attention that included CPR. Hamlin’s famliy was at the game and they rode with him in the ambulance to the hospital. 
• NFL postpones game. Twenty-three minutes after the injury happened (9:18 p.m. ET), the NFL announced that the game would be temporarily suspended. By 10 p.m. ET, the league decided that the game would be fully postponed. There have been several reports that the NFL initially wanted the game to continue after the players were given a five-minute warm-up, but the league has denied this. 
• Bills announce that Hamlin went into cardiac arrest. At 1:48 a.m. ET, we got our first official update about Hamlin. In a tweet, the Bills revealed that he went into cardiac…