58 Days to Purdue Football: Ryan Flaherty

I feel like I am running out of ways to say “we have a promising walk-on lineman” here ont he countdown, but it is true. Today’s player is a promising scout team player doing all the hard work in practice.

New Carlisle, IN (New Prairie HS)

6’3”, 280 pounds

Offensive Line

2018 Projection: Deep Reserve on the Offensive Line

Flaherty hasn’t played a down yet, but last season he was one of several players that received Academic all-Big Ten honors. He did this in his second year as a walk-on with the program.

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. that school is the in the Chicago Catholic League,…