He doesn't. It's hush money to cover up the story. If he were alive, he wouldn't need it. He has a salary/contract that will pay him well even if he's "out." Pro athletes typically have hefty insurance that pays out in the result of a sports-related injury forcing them "out". And the organization/league would cover him as well. That charity GoFundMe money is to collect from fools to payoff the actors (fam, friends, etc who need to keep the lid on)

He had a charity that had only a couple grand and now it's worth what !!? 👉👉Injured Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's GoFundMe effort was originally intended to raise a few thousand dollars for a community toy drive.

With more than $8.7 million in donations pouring in from roughly 245,000 donors since Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during a Jan. 2 game in Cincinnati, the Chasing M's Foundation has taken on an unimagined scale.