Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s collapse prompted questions about how common cardiac arrest is for athletes, particularly football players. Our news partners at KTAL NBC 6 talked to Dr. John Evans, the Cardiothoracic Surgeon at CHRISTUS Shreveport Bossier Health System.

“Him playing football was probably unrelated to exactly what happened; he could have been on the sidewalk when this happened,” Dr. John Evans said, “Likely he had some kind of condition, cardiac condition that led to his cardiac arrest.”