Chiefs' Rick Burkholder Provides Health Update On Defensive End B.J. Thompson

Rick Burkholder, Kansas City Chiefs vice president of sports medicine and performance, provides an update on defensive end BJ Thompson during a press conference at the Chiefs' training complex on Friday, June 7, 2024, in Kansas City.
A day later, Chiefs defensive end B.J. Thompson is awake, responsive and fortunate his seizure happened where it did.
“Thank goodness,” Andy Reid said. “If that had to happen, no better place than right here where you have the support that knows what to do.”
The Chiefs addressed Thompson’s episode on Friday for the first time, and described an emergency that was addressed immediately.
“He’s awake and alert and and he’s coming through quite well,” Chiefs trainer Rick Burkholder said. “He’s headed in the absolute right direction. All things (that are) good in a little bit of a hairy situation.”
Burkholder supplied a timeline that started in a special teams meeting with Thompson, a fifth-round pick in 2023 who played in one game last season, suffering a seizure that caused him to go into cardiac arrest.
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