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Originally Posted by damientheomen3
I saw a doctor youtube channel talk about the incident shortly after it happened, and he said that there's a brief, milliseconds-long window in a specific part of the heartbeat cycle that, if a force hard enough to specifically that portion of your chest hits in this exact brief window, it can cause a person to go into cardiac arrest. He posited that as a potential explanation of what could have happened. He also mentioned baseball as an example of a sport where this is more likely to happen because a baseball is more likely to hit in the way needed to cause this issue than anything on a football field; I'm not a big baseball buff so I don't know of any examples of baseball players collapsing after being hit in the chest off the cuff.
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Yep, I read something last night that Dr. Richard Kovacs (who is an NFL combine heart doc) wrote about it. Can't find it now, but there a number of articles that refer to the basics of what he wrote. Just Google his name and "Hamlin"...