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- ↑ https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerh/hoff00170.html
- ↑ Cleveland Browns Archived June 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Andrew Hoffman Bio". CBS Sports. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
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