He began his film career in 2012 playing Neckbone in Jeff Nichols' Mud, with Matthew McConaughey and Tye Sheridan.
Coming across one of them, Lofland's mother recognized that her son fit every adjective of Neck's personality description, as well as bringing the boating and cycle riding experience for which Nichols was looking.
Less than three weeks after his mother saw the open casting call in the paper, Lofland took his first plane flight to Austin to audition for Nichols and producer Sarah Greene.
[4] In 2014, he joined the cast of the fifth season of Justified,[5] and in 2015, he co-starred as Aris in the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
In 2024, he appeared in Joker: Folie à Deux and Landman, a Paramount+ series created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace.