Tom Brady hosts young fan and his family at Bucs-Panthers

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady hosted 9-year-old George Cogdill, who is battling an autoimmune information called Henoch-Schonlein purpura, and his household connected Sunday arsenic the Bucs prepared to instrumentality connected the Carolina Panthers.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion treated the household from Pinewood, South Carolina -- a two-hour thrust from the Panthers' Bank of America Stadium successful Charlotte -- to pregame passes and seats successful the household section.

Henoch-Schonlein purpura affects the kidneys, and it landed George successful the infirmary successful 2021. Brady, aft proceeding George's story, sent him an inspirational video and a signed jersey.

After aggregate IV therapies, kidney biopsies and regular medication, George went from struggling to locomotion past twelvemonth to present playing shot and baseball. And similar Brady, helium plays backmost and wears No. 12.

George was calved with torticollis and developed plagiocephaly. He besides has autism, sensory processing disorder, obsessive compulsive upset and ADHD, his mother, Carson said, but helium hasn't fto those things clasp him back. The household credits inspiration from Brady and religion for helping him. He precocious received a citizenship grant astatine his schoolhouse for ever lifting up his peers and helping others.

"He is simply a combatant and is ever positive," said Carson, who believes George gets this from his father. "Attitude determines your altitude and ne'er letting a diagnosis specify him!"