He spent two seasons at Hawthorn without earning an AFL debut, instead playing reserves grade football with the club's VFL affiliate, the Box Hill Hawks.

[7] A month later he set a new club record with 14 tackles in a match against Port Adelaide in Round 10.

[9] He set new records that year for the most contested possessions (298) and most tackles (124) in a single season by any Richmond player in the club's history.

[4] Both records stood for five years until broken by former teammates Dustin Martin and Trent Cotchin, respectively, in 2017.

[1] Tuck debuted in professional boxing in November 2015 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, being knocked out in the fourth round from an uppercut to the chin by Lucas Miller;[15][16] he was carried out on a stretcher.

[17] He fought in five professional matches over a boxing career that lasted until August 2017, winning three, losing once and drawing on one other occasion.

[20][21][22] Richmond wore black armbands to honour his memory in their Round 8 match against Greater Western Sydney on 24 July 2020.

[24] In March 2023, Tuck's family, alongside former AFL players Darren Jarman and Jay Schulz, launched a class-action lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Victoria against the AFL and the Richmond, Port Adelaide, Hawthorn and Adelaide football clubs, with the plaintiffs alleging that the defendants failed to ensure proper concussion management during the plaintiffs' playing careers.