Damar Hamlin tweets immediate response to Nyheim Hines’ kick return touchdown

Nyheim Hines of the Bills returned the opening kickoff for a 96-yard touchdown, and Damar Hamlin was excited to see it.

Damar Hamlin’s teammates knew that he would be watching as the Buffalo Bills took on the New England Patriots on Sunday. Hamlin, who is still at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after suffering cardiac arrest on the field last Monday night at Cincinnati’s Paycor Stadium, has come a long way in his medical progression since then.

Hamlin was all set to watch the game from his hospital bed.

What he could not have expected was running back Nyheim Hines’ 96-yard kickoff return to start the game. After all, no Bills player had returned any kickoff for a touchdown since 2019…

…and just the second time in team history that any Bills player did it on the opening kickoff of a game. The Bills have been around since 1960, by the way.

So, Hamlin was pretty excited, as you might expect.

We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves.