One of today’s players is very well known and is a critical contributor offensively. The other player is a lesser known walk-on safety. Let’s start with the safety.
Hayden Ellinger - Fr. (RS)
Fort Wayne, IN (Bishop Dwenger HS)
6’, 215 pounds
Safety
2021 Projection: Reserve
Purdue has had great success with walk-on safeties from Fort Wayne Dwenger. That is the alma mater from multi-year starter Landon Feichter, who started his career as a walk-on. Dwenger is a medium school power in Indiana and normally makes some deep runs in the state tournament.