Finding information about walk-ons is sometimes hard to do for this countdown. Many are lightly recruited and the info can be scattered all over the place. For today’s player his own family reached out to me more than a week ago to provide his background:
Ryan Flaherty - Fr. (RS)
New Carlisle, IN (New Prairie HS)
6’5”, 300 pounds
Offensive Line
2017 Projection: Deep reserve on the offensive line.
Purdue lists Ryan’s high school as New Carlisle in northern Indiana, but he played at Chicago’s Mount Carmel HS for three years before moving.