Jack Hestera

Houston

Sep 12 (Fri)

5:30 PM

Photo by: Dan Madden

Photo by: Tim Benko, Benko Photographics

AT COLORADO

Played his first two seasons at Colorado before returning for the 2025 season.
In 2022 he played in 11 games and recorded 14 receptions for 157 receiving yards with a long of 31.
During his freshman season he did not see game action.

TRANSFER RANKINGS

247 Sports lists him with a transfer rating of .8700 as the No. 471-ranked player overall and No. 95 wide receiver (as of July 29, 2025).
Hestera returns to Colorado with one year to play one.

AT UTAH STATE

Appeared in 11 games in 2024 and finished with 24 receptions for 340 yards and four touchdowns.
He had a career-high 10 receptions for 152 yards and one touchdown against UNLV.
Ended the season ranked seventh in the Mountain West in yards per reception with 14.17.

AT CHARLOTTE

In 2023, he started in seven of the nine games he saw the field.
Hestera totaled 28 receptions for 349 yards and three touchdowns.
He led the team with four receptions of 25-plus yards and 12 catches of 15-plus yards on the season.

HIGH SCHOOL

Played three years of varsity football, two years at Ralston Valley High School in Arvada as a sophomore and junior, and then his senior season at Cedar Park High School in Cedar Park, Texas.
As a senior, when Cedar Park went 13-1 and advanced to the Texas 5A State Championship game, he compiled 53 receptions for 1,061 yards and 16 touchdowns.
Added 95 yards on kickoff returns for a total of 1,156 all-purpose yards
Named first-team All-District 11 5A Division I and honorable mention on the All-CenTex team.
He set multiple receiving records at Cedar Park, including most touchdown receptions in a season and most consecutive games with a touchdown reception (seven).
Despite only one season at Cedar Park, he also ranked No. 4 for career receiving touchdowns, No. 6 for season receiving yards and No. 7 for both career receptions and receiving yards. Also ranked No. 6 in career yards per catch (20.0)
Junior season at Ralston Valley, he was named honorable mention all-conference as a cornerback.
Also played track & field and lacrosse in high school.
Named honorable mention all-conference as an attackman his freshman season.

PERSONAL

Parents are Dan and Aimee Hestera.
Has an older sister, Madelynn.
Dad Dan was a member of the 1990 National Championship team at Colorado and also won a state championship in 1988 at Pomona.
An uncle, Dave Hestera, was an All-Big Eight tight end for the Buffs in the early 1980s and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1984 NFL Draft.