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Purdue Football: Offseason Questions - Austin Burton

I wasn’t a fan Purdue picking up Austin Burton as a multi-year transfer from UCLA in 2019. I liked his game, but didn’t see how it fit into the Jeff Brohm system. At the time, the Boilermakers had a glut of young quarterbacks on the depth chart, and adding Burton only further muddied the waters.

Things have gone about the way I expected. Burton didn’t take a single snap in 2020, and contributed 14 rushing yards and 44 passing yards (all the passing yards came against UConn). He’s a zone read quarterback in a decidedly not-zone read system.