Greg Doyel Reports Trey Kaufman-Ren Will Redshirt

Nikos Frazier / Journal & Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK Just about an hour before tipoff of the 2021-2022 Purdue Men’s Basketball season Greg Doyle of the Indy Star dropped a bit of a bomb on Twitter.

How deep is Purdue? It's redshirting freshman forward Trey Kaufman-Renn of Silver Creek, the Gatorade state player of the year as a HS junior. Purdue also redshirting Brian Waddell of Carmel.

— Gregg Doyel (@GreggDoyelStar) November 9, 2021 This is an interesting development because along with Caleb Furst, Kaufman-Renn was expected contribute heavily to a Purdue team expected to do big things this year. If you step back and think about it the decision does make a certain amount of sense. The…