Monday night, during the Bills and Bengals game, the sports world was turned upside down after Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field and had to be revived.
As of Thursday afternoon, his doctors say that he is doing better and can communicate. He even asked who won the Monday Night Football game.
It can’t be stated enough how important of a role the Bills trainers/medical staff played in saving Hamlin’s life. To be exact, Bills assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington. He is the man who played a very integral part in saving Hamlin’s life.
When the training staff came onto the field, Hamlin had a pulse, and when he lost it, Kellington immediately started giving Hamlin CPR, which saved his life.
Kellington is absolutely a hero.
Kellington has been with the Bills since 2017. He previously was at Syracuse University from 2005 to 2017 as an assistant athletic trainer and then the head athletic trainer for football.
The school’s football Twitter account posted, “Proud of our longtime athletic trainer Denny Kellington for his actions in Cincinnati on Monday night.”
Kellington’s first exposure to the NFL came in 1999 with the Denver Broncos as an offseason intern. He interned again in the 2000 offseason and was a season intern with the team in 2001. He was an assistant athletic trainer with the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europe in 2002.
While pursuing his master’s at Ohio State from 2000 to 2002, Kellington was a graduate assistant athletic trainer with the Buckeyes field hockey and women’s lacrosse programs.
A native of Midwest City, Okla., he has a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State.
Enough can’t be said about the actions of Kellington and the doctors that night. A young man hopefully will be able to have a long and productive life because of them. They are the real heroes.
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