Clay Hollis Character Summary

In this text, a young football player named Clay Hollis loves the game of football, but has an increasing fear of concussions. Clay lives in San Antonio and is in middle school he plays pee wee football with his best friend David Guerrero. Clay Hollis is a wide receiver and after taking a bad hit in his football game he starts to miss catches out of the fear that he might get hurt. This is unusual because he has never felt this way before. Clay is feeling embarrassed and he also doesn’t want to let his team down. More importantly he doesn’t want to let his best friend and quarterback down of his coach Monty Cooper who had played with the Dallas Cowboys professional football team in the 1900s. After the game his over protective mom and football brainiac does some research about concussions because she doesn’t want her son getting hurt. Clay notices lapses in his coaches memory and mood swings, he begins to understand that the amount of hits that his coach took when he played has come to effect him now. Clay’s goal is to help Coach Cooper walk onto the Cowboys field during Thanksgiving so he can be honored along his Super Bowl teammates. Clay teams up with Maddie Guerrero, David’s little sister, to get his coach an Iphone and make sure that he doesn’t get lost. …show more content…
The character Maddie Guerrero has a big role in the book, for instance she helps Clay get Coach Cooper and iPhone and installs an app so he doesn’t get lost. Next Clay’s mother has a big role also, she wants to educate her son about concussions but she doesn’t want to scare him. Mike Lupica keep the layout of the book very simple, he doesn’t try to make the book tough to read. He writes the book in simple but powerful