Damar Hamlin thanks fans as Las Vegas Raiders & Kansas City Chiefs show support

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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes wears a customized reddish apical with 'Hamlin strong' connected successful enactment of Buffalo Bills subordinate Damar Hamlin

Buffalo Bills information Damar Hamlin has thanked fans for their "overwhelming" emotion erstwhile helium posted connected societal media for the archetypal clip since suffering cardiac apprehension successful a NFL crippled connected Monday.

The Bills person said Hamlin, 24, is making "continued progress" yet remains successful a "critical condition".

The Las Vegas Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs showed enactment for Hamlin successful the archetypal crippled since his collapse.

Players wore 'Love for Damar 3' t-shirts during their warm-ups.

Hamlin, who collapsed connected the tract during a crippled against the Cincinnati Bengals, wrote connected Instagram: "When you enactment existent emotion retired into the satellite it comes backmost to you 3 times arsenic much.

"The emotion has been overwhelming, but I'm thankful for each azygous idiosyncratic that prayed for maine and reached out.

"If you cognize maine you cognize this is lone going to marque maine stronger. On a agelong roadworthy - support praying for me."

Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes wore a apical with a graphic of the Bills subordinate and 'Hamlin strong' written connected it earlier their last regular play crippled astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas connected Saturday.

Hamlin's sanction and fig was displayed connected screens wrong and extracurricular the stadium, portion the fig 3 - Hamlin's jersey fig - connected the 30-yard people had a painted bluish outline, arsenic it is 1 of the Bills' colours.

The Chiefs won 31-13 to unafraid apical effect successful the American Football Conference and a first-round bye successful the play-offs.

They extremity the regular play with a 14-3 grounds and are looking for their 3rd Super Bowl quality successful 4 seasons.

"This week it's been hard for a batch of guys," said Mahomes aft the crippled successful which helium acceptable a grounds for astir full yards successful an NFL season.

"But to person him being capable to speech and beryllium capable to beryllium with his family, it gave america that information that we tin travel retired present and inactive bask this crippled that we each love.

"Hopefully, helium tin proceed to get amended and amended and cognize that we are each inactive praying for him. We each nonstop emotion to him and hopefully helium is backmost connected the tract sooner alternatively than later."

Elsewhere, the Jacksonville Jaguars clinched their archetypal play-off berth since 2017 with a 20-16 triumph implicit the Tennessee Titans to triumph the AFC South.

That game, similar each successful the NFL this weekend, showed enactment for Hamlin, with players wearing t-shirts, fans holding banners, the fig 3 painted connected the tract and 'pray for Damar 3' shown connected the large surface anterior to kick-off.

The Bills volition deterioration fig 3 patches connected their jerseys erstwhile they big the New England Patriots connected Sunday successful their archetypal crippled since Hamlin collapsed against the Bengals successful Ohio.

Hamlin has had his breathing conduit removed and successful a tweet the Bills cited his doctors by saying his neurologic relation remains intact and that helium has been capable to speech to his household and attraction team.

The fig 3 is sprayed with a bluish outline successful the colour of the Buffalo Bills to honour Damar Hamlin

Support was shown astatine the Jaguars' TIAA Bank Field successful Jacksonville

The NFL cancelled the Bills' game against the Bengals successful the aftermath of the incident.

NFL owners subsequently approved changes to the AFC play-off structure fixed the result of the crippled would person affected play-off seedings, with some sides already having secured post-season spots.

The Bills and Bengals volition person their post-season positions determined by their winning percent implicit their completed 16 games - alternatively of the afloat 17 - aft the last circular of games instrumentality spot this weekend.

The AFC Championship crippled could beryllium played astatine a neutral tract if the location squad ordinarily would person been decided by the effect of the cancelled crippled betwixt the Bengals and Bills.

Hamlin, who has been successful the intensive attraction portion astatine the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, joined a gathering with his squad via Facetime connected Friday and said "Love you, boys".

He suffered cardiac apprehension aft tackling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. Hamlin fell connected his backmost to the crushed aft the collision and received much than 30 minutes of on-the-field aesculapian care, during which helium was resuscitated once, according to the player's person and selling cause Jordon Rooney.

Support for the second-year Bills subordinate has poured successful since the accident.

A GoFundMe leafage for a artifact thrust launched by Hamlin has amassed much than $7m (£5.9m).

Several NFL players person donated to the cause, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady and Denver Broncos backmost Russell Wilson.

Hamlin was drafted to the NFL successful 2021 from the University of Pittsburgh, wherever helium played assemblage football.