Scott Cunningham/Getty Images University of Nebraska football superfan Jack Hoffman, who famously ran for a touchdown during ...

A beloved Husker fan who battled brain cancer and famously scored a touchdown during the 2013 spring game has died.

Jack Hoffman, a Nebraska Cornhuskers superfan known for scoring a touchdown for the team at seven years old, has tragically ...

Hoffman was a fan of former Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead, who developed a friendship with the young fan. The entire Huskers team and fanbase rallied around Hoffman after hearing his story ...

The college football community is mourning after the loss of a prominent fan on Wednesday. Nebraska Cornhuskers superfan Jeff ...

Jack Hoffman, the cancer patient who captured the hearts of Nebraska football fans and inspired the nation as a 7-year-old ...

running back Rex Burkhead. More Football: Quinn Ewers Declares For NFL Draft: 5 Teams That Could Select Texas Quarterback Later that year, while the Huskers were trailing Ohio State 20-6 in a game ...

At seven years old, Hoffman joined the Huskers for the annual Red-White Spring Game, thanks to a bond he had formed with former Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead. Jack took the field with the ...

He saw more than 50 of Jack’s family members and close loved ones — including Rex Burkhead — seated in the rows up front, bundled up in their coats in Saturday’s frigid temperatures.

Jack was a passionate Nebraska football fan, and shortly after his diagnosis he struck up a friendship with Huskers running back and future NFL player Rex Burkhead. The nation was introduced to ...