Harrison Butker aided Chiefs teammate BJ Thompson during seizure, cardiac arrest
NY Post
When BJ Thompson suffered a seizure during a Chiefs team meeting Thursday, kicker Harrison Butker played a critical role in alerting medical personnel in the training room.
He “immediately ran” toward that space and grabbed assistant athletic trainers Julie Frymyer and David Glover — as well as vice president of sports performance and medicine Rick Burkholder — to assist, and other medical professionals later joined them, Burkholder told reporters, according to NFL Network.
“As a team, we tried to stabilize BJ and put him on the floor while he was still seizing,” Burkholder said. “Then he went into cardiac arrest. Our team of that group of people provided CPR for him, he had one AD shock and came back so he was only in cardiac arrest for less than a minute — minute and a half.
“Our players, our security staff, everybody involved, coaches and staff, they were phenomenal in handling the crisis.”
Earlier Thursday, Thompson suffered the seizure and went into cardiac arrest during a special teams meeting, which prompted the Chiefs to cancel the rest of their team activities Thursday before resuming their OTAs on Friday.
Thompson was “awake and responsive” Friday, just over 12 hours after his agent told NFL Network in another statement that Thompson hadn’t regained consciousness yet but was stable.
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