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Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson is awake and improving, according to Rick Burkholder, the team's vice president of sports medicine and performance.
Thompson, 25, reportedly suffered a seizure and cardiac arrest during a special teams meeting on Thursday while at the Chiefs' practice facility. He was transported by ambulance to the hospital, placed on a ventilator and was heavily sedated overnight.
Burkholder said the ventilator was due to Thompson's level of sedation.
"With B.J., when he had the seizure [Chiefs kicker Harrison] Butker immediately ran toward the training room and grabbed Julie Frymyer and David Glover, and then grabbed me," Burkholder explained Friday. "We went into the room, eventually Tiffany Borton and Evan Kraft came in, as well as, with this facility, we have a doctor's office down the hall, and Dr. JP Darche from Kansas University Health System was there, and assisted in, as a team, we tried to stabilize B.J. and put him on the floor.
"He was still seizing, and then he went into cardiac arrest, so, our team of that group of people provided CPR for him. He had one AED shock and came back, so he was probably only in cardiac arrest for a minute, minute and a half."
Thompson was brought out of sedation Friday, and according to Burkholder, he is alert, awake and "headed in the absolutely right direction."
"We don't have a diagnosis, and in medicine, sometimes you don't have that," Burkholder added.
The Chiefs canceled practice and media availability following the incident. At the time, it was unclear whether a player or staff member was involved.
Thompson was selected by the Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2023 NFL Draft out of Stephen F. Austin. He appeared in one game in 2023, largely on special teams, and made two tackles.
The Chiefs will finish OTA workouts this week. Mandatory minicamp is set to start Tuesday before official training camp kicks off in July.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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