Chiefs DL BJ Thompson responsive following seizure, cardiac arrest

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs defensive lineman BJ Thompson is awake and responsive sooner or later after struggling a seizure and going into cardiac arrest throughout a particular groups assembly, NFL Community Insider Tom Pelissero reported on Friday, per Thompson’s agent.

Chiefs vice chairman of sports activities drugs and efficiency Rick Burkholder instructed reporters on Friday that Thompson was closely sedated at a neighborhood hospital on Thursday and in a single day following the incident and was on a ventilator in a single day to help together with his respiratory, however that has since been eliminated.

“He is awake and he is alert,” Burkholder stated. “He is headed within the absolute proper route.”

Burkholder defined the scary state of affairs on Thursday, and famous that kicker Harrison Butker alerted the medical employees of Thompson’s situation when the seizure started.

Burkholder stated that the employees needed to carry out CPR on Thompson and used a defibrillator one time after he went into cardiac arrest.

“Our gamers, our safety employees, all people concerned, coaches and employees, they had been phenomenal in dealing with the disaster,” Burkholder stated.

Burkholder added that the league mandates groups observe their emergency motion plans a number of instances a 12 months, and the Chiefs simply occurred to conduct an train on Monday.

“That is a troublesome state of affairs, I have been by a few these earlier than in my time and it is by no means enjoyable,” Chiefs head coach Andy Reid instructed reporters on Friday. “Thank goodness although, if it needed to occur, no higher place then proper right here the place he had the assist that is aware of what to do.”

The Chiefs cancelled all crew actions scheduled for Thursday following the incident.

Thompson, a 2023 fifth-round decide, appeared in a single recreation throughout his rookie season.

The reigning Tremendous Bowl champions are at the moment in Part 3 of their voluntary offseason program. Necessary minicamp is scheduled to start on Tuesday.