Tyler Trent, an avid Purdue fan, passed away Monday following a bout with bone cancer, according to a family member's Instagram account and the Purdue Cancer Center. He was 20 years old.
Trent enrolled as a student at Purdue in September 2017, but had to leave school during the fall of 2018 after osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer identified in his spine, intensified. Trent had first discovered the disease when he was 15 years old, overcoming it following nine months of chemotherapy before it resurfaced two years later.
Trent became a heartwarming fixture within the Boilermakers' season and the college football world.