Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Harrison Phillips was with the Bills in 2021 and was teammates with Darmar Hamlin during his rookie season. Earlier this week, while Hamlin’s family and others waited for any update on his condition, Phillips bought dinner for his family, the Bills’ training staff and the doctors and nurses who are at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center’s ICU doing anything they can to help Hamlin.
"We left the game early, and I was just refreshing Twitter every second, reading every tweet out there, just waiting to hear what's going on and what could happen. I sent out a bunch of text messages to almost all my [former] teammates," Phillips said, via the team’s website.
"For all the teammates that were rallied around them there, it was a very hard scene to see. You can try to picture it as best you can, but it was a very hard scene. So I've obviously been praying. I got on my knees, praying and trying to figure out, 'What can you do?' There's nothing really to do than try to reach out to everyone you can and make sure that they know that they're loved and bring as much support as you can."
Phillips said he eventually was able to connect with someone at the hospital and was able to get some food purchased for everyone involved.
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