NFL star Damar Hamlin might never be allowed to return to the field following his collapse during a Monday game.

The 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety suddenly dropped to the ground this Monday while his team was playing against Cincinnati Bengals in a Monday Night Football match.

After the young athlete was rushed to the hospital, it was revealed that he needed to be resuscitated twice after his heart stopped. Furthermore, the footballer was hooked to a breathing device because he couldn’t breathe on his own due to lung damage.

Now, a top Mount Sinai cardiologist, Dr Deepak Bhatt, revealed that Hamlin will likely make a full recovery and resume his life.

But while Bhatt told DailyMail.com that a full recovery is very possible, the cardiologist believes the league likely won’t let him play at least for a few months.

“If I had to guess, there is perhaps a 50 percent chance that he will be allowed to return to play and a 50 percent chance he will not,” Bhatt guessed.

“It really depends on how much risk the NFL is willing to take and how willing the team doctor would be to sign off on him returning to play, realizing that no one can really quantify what the exact risks of returning to play would be.”

He continued: “If his doctors, including his team doctors, all clear him to return to play, they would likely still want him to wait at least a couple of months, repeat a battery of tests, and if everything is completely normal, only then even consider it.”

Like hundreds of other health experts, Bhatt also suspects that Hamlin suffered an extremely rare condition known as commotio cordis.

Commotio cordis occurs when a person suffers chest trauma that throws the heart muscle off balance by changing its rhythm.

“Commotio cordis, if that is indeed what happened, is very rare,” Bhatt explained.

“There have been a few case reports of recurrences, but again, we are talking about rare events.”

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