Jack Bech didn’t make it the NFL alone.
He did it for his brother, Tiger.
When the Raiders chose Bech out of TCU with the No. 58 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, it was a heart-wrenching moment.
Tiger Bech is Jack’s older brother, a Princeton receiver who was one of the 14 people killed in the New Orleans terrorist attack on New Year’s Day.
Jack shared his full thoughts on the last week in a new first-person account shared Wednesday by The Player’s Tribune.
I think the coolest thing about it is that I can totally see your reaction in my mind when you get to this next part right here, where I tell you….
We did it, Big Bro!
We actually did it!!!!!!!
We made it to the league! Our dream came true!
I see you jumping off the couch, as high as you can, all in one motion. Then flexing and pumping your fist like, “LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
The whole letter is worth reading.
Bech shares more of his emotions as he goes along.
I wish more than anything that I could be talking to you right now,” Bech writes to Tiger. “Saying all of this, instead of writing it down. Giving you a big hug, tears streaming down both our faces, as I tell you that this whole thing — getting drafted, making it to the NFL, beginning my journey as a professional football player — it’s all thanks to you.”
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Tiger encouraged Bech, he writes.
“You were the first one to see greatness in me,” Bech wrote. “To tell me that God gifted me with some things he doesn’t give to everybody, and that there was no limit to what I could do in this life.”
Jack is a 6-foot-1, 214-pound receiver. He was a stud for the Horned Frogs. In his last college season, he had 62 catches, 1,034 yards and nine touchdown grabs.
He plans to make the most of his NFL career.
“And I’m telling you, everything I do going forward, it’s going to be all about making you proud,” Bech writes to Tiger. “About trying to put a smile on your face up in heaven.”
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