We already know of the leading candidate for Comeback Player of the Year for Purdue, if not the Big Ten. It is today’s player. All he has to do is make it to the field.
Western Springs, IL (Nazereth Academy)
6’5”, 290 pounds
Defensive tackle
2017 Projection: Recovering from a freaking brain tumor!
Colmery has been on campus for three years and has yet to play a snap, but he has a good excuse for not playing in 2016. On June 28, 2016 a benign tumor about the size of a tennis ball burst behind his left eye:
Nine months ago, a neurosurgeon made an incision that stretched nearly ear to ear across the edge of Colmery’s scalp, just above the hairline.