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Zach Hoffpauir, a former two-sport athlete at Stanford University, died on Thursday at the age of 26.
Doug Hoffpauir, Zach's father, told Richard Obert of the Arizona Republic in a text message about his son's death.
No cause of death was given.
Hoffpauir played baseball for the Cardinal from 2012-15 until he was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks. He also played football from 2012-16 and was an honorable mention on the All-Pac-12 team as a junior in 2014.
Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, who played with Hoffpauir in college from 2014-16, wrote a message on Instagram about his former teammate:
"Yesterday Heaven gained an angel, and I lost one of my best friends in the world.