Purdue Football: D.J. Johnson is Free!

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty ImagesD.J. Johnson, former Iowa Hawkeye and current Purdue Boilermaker had his NCAA waiver to play this season approved.

Brohm: Iowa transfer D.J. Johnson's waiver approved by NCAA. Waiting on the Big Ten to sign off to make it official.

— mike carmin (@carmin_jc) October 10, 2020 I anticipate the Big10 rubber stamping this thing on Monday.

This is a huge addition to the Boilermaker secondary. Bob Diaco loves to use corner/safety highbred players in the back end of his defense and D.J.’s skill set should mesh perfectly. He’s listed as a safety on Purdue’s official roster, but that doesn’t mean much in Diaco’s scheme. L’Jarius Sneed, a 6’1, 190 converted corner was…