Our first hit of the year came to us all the way from West Lafayette, Indiana, on January 1st. Tyler Trent was a student at Purdue University who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma as a 15-year-old. However, he didn’t let that stand in the way of his college football love, and in 2018 became an honorary captain of the university’s Purdue Boilermakers team. He grabbed a ton of media attention when the Boilmakers shocked #2 seed Ohio State 49-20, attention that found him on a couple of savvy DDP team radars. Never underestimate the Daily Mail’s love of mawkish US traffic…
September 7, 1998 – January 1, 2019
Died aged 20 (2 picks, 2 jokers)