21 Facts About Jack Hoffman

Jack Hoffman was an American high school football player and pediatric brain cancer patient.

Jack Hoffman subsequently met with President Barack Obama, received the Best Moment ESPY Award for 2013, and the United States Senate approved a motion recognizing his role in raising awareness of pediatric brain cancer.

Jack Hoffman was rushed to the local hospital in Atkinson, Nebraska, where he had a grand mal seizure lasting 30 minutes.

In October 2013, Jack Hoffman's father reported that an MRI revealed that the remaining tumor was the same size as in an MRI done in June 2013, indicating that it was not growing.

Jack Hoffman wanted to get a picture of his son with his favorite Nebraska football player, Rex Burkhead.

Jack Hoffman had lunch with the Hoffman family, showed them Memorial Stadium, and decided he wanted to keep in touch with Hoffman.

In September2012, Jack Hoffman walked with the Nebraska players onto the field for their game against Wisconsin.

Jack Hoffman ran the idea by football coach Bo Pelini the night before the game and Pelini approved.

Team Jack Hoffman sold 30,000T-shirts and collected $275,000 in donations, which they gave to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.

Andy wrote a book about his son's journey, Yards After Contact, as a fundraiser for Team Jack Hoffman; he completed the book shortly before discovering in 2020 that he had a brain tumor.

Jack Hoffman won an ESPY Award for Best Moment ESPY Award in 2013.

Jack Hoffman's touchdown run was listed fifth in The Best Emotional Moment in sports for 2013 by USA Today.

Jack Hoffman was one of five nominees for Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 2013.

The resolution singles out Jack Hoffman's touchdown run for increasing awareness of pediatric brain cancer:.

Whereas on April 6,2013,7-year-old pediatric brain cancer patient Jack Hoffman joined the lineup of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team for its spring football game, wearing football pads and a number 22 jersey, and ran 69 yards to score a touchdown in front of more than 60,000 fans at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, touching the hearts of millions of Americans and raising awareness of pediatric brain cancer.

Results of the 13-month clinical trial enabled Jack Hoffman to stop active treatment in 2015.

The Hoffman family faced another cancer crisis in July2020, shortly before Jack was set to begin playing football at West Holt High School.

Andy Jack Hoffman died at the age of 42 on March1,2021.

In 2023, brain scans revealed that Jack Hoffman's tumor had grown, and he underwent another resection surgery in summer 2024; pathology results revealed that the cancer had become more aggressive.

Jack Hoffman had enrolled in the pre-law program at the University of Nebraska at Kearney shortly after the surgery.

Jack Hoffman died at his home on January15,2025, at the age of 19.