Huffman played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, winning a national championship with the team in 1977 and earning consensus All-American honors in 1978.
He played professionally for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the Memphis Showboats of the USFL.
[1] He attended the University of Notre Dame, and played for coach Ara Parseghian and coach Dan Devine's Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team from 1975 to 1979.
He was noted for his good humor, which included saying that during games he always wore red-colored elbow pads so that his mother could see where he was in the pile-ups.
Huffman died in a car accident November 21, 1998, while on his way to the final Notre Dame home game of the season vs. LSU.