Dan Orlovsky Recalls 'Uncomfortable' Damar Hamlin Moment On ESPN

It's been just over 2.5 years since life-saving measures had to be taken to keep Damar Hamlin alive on the football field.

As "thoughts and prayers" flooded social media in the minutes and hours to follow, ESPN's Dan Orlovsky felt compelled to actually give them on live TV the next day. A moment that he says was admittedly "uncomfortable" for him.

"I heard the Buffalo Bills organization say that 'We believe in prayer,' and maybe this is not the right thing to do, but it's just on my heart, and I want to pray for Damar Hamlin right now," Orlovsky said on "NFL Live" at the time before reciting his prayer. "I'm going to do it out loud. I'm going to close my eyes and bow my head, and I'm just going to pray for him."

Now in an interview with Awful Announcing, the analyst is reliving that moment and what his thought process was before making his decision.

"Everyone keeps saying 'thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers.' And I thought to myself, 'Someone should actually pray for Damar — like actually pray for him — instead of saying thoughts and prayers,'" Orlovsky said. "I started to have this feeling in my heart, 'OK, Dan, God's telling you, go pray for Damar.'"