‘”I’m thankful and blessed,” Hamlin said at a press conference Tuesday. “I’m blessed to have wonderful trainers here who treat me with the love and care as if I were their own children. … This event was life-changing, but it’s not the end of my story. I’m here to announce that I plan on making a comeback to the NFL. The diagnosis of what happened to me was basically commotio cordis. It’s a direct blow at a specific point in your heartbeat that causes cardiac arrest, and five to seconds later you fall out. That’s what everyone has seen back on January 2nd of this year. commotio cordis is the leading cause of (death for) athletes across all youth sports, so that’s something I will be taking a step in to make a change. The awareness around CPR and the access to AEDs have been lowering that number as well.”‘