Jack McCaffrey

Playing career In April 2013, McCaffrey won a National Football League winners' medal as Dublin defeated Tyrone by 0–18 to 0–17 to win the 2013 National Football League. He made his championship debut against Westmeath in the 2013 Leinster Senior Football Championship. He scored a solo goal in the 2013 All-Ireland quarter-final against Cork. Still teenaged, he played in the 2013 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, the first such final he would play in. In November 2013, he was named as GAA/GPA Young Footballer of the Year.

In November 2015, McCaffrey received the highest individual honour in the sport when he was named as GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year. He did so in spite of contracting food poisoning "in around the Thursday" before the 2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, which left him unable to finish the game. "I couldn't keep any food or water down so I got a drip to stay hydrated. But that was actually great at the time because it completely distracted from the build-up to a final ... all you were worried about is, 'Am I going to be okay?' You're no thinking about the occasion itself. And then thankfully I pulled through and performed okay for the 50 minutes that I lasted". He travelled to Ethiopia, then Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania.

McCaffrey played in that year's All-Ireland final win but left the pitch early after sustaining what later proved to be an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Interviewed the following day by journalists, McCaffrey reminded them: "This was the first time I've been on the pitch when the final whistle blew in an All-Ireland final. Incredible. It was so satisfying, such a relief." He was top scorer (1–3) from open play. He later described the drawn 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final as the game that "broke me" but decided initially to remain when his former minor and under-21 manager Dessie Farrell was appointed as Jim Gavin's successor.

He returned to the Dublin panel in 2023, but left the panel again at the end of the 2024 season.

Honours Team All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (6): 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 Leinster Senior Football Championship (9): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 National Football League (3): 2013, 2014, 2015 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship (2): 2012, 2014 (c) Leinster Under-21 Football Championship (2): 2012, 2014

Individual All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Man of the Match (2): 2018, The Sunday Game Player of the Year (1): 2015 GAA/GPA Young Footballer of the Year (1): 2013 GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year (1): 2015 GAA GPA All Stars Awards (4): 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 UCD Alumni Award Winner Sport 2020