Purdue Football: The Case for Elijah Sindelar

As I mentioned in the David Blough piece last week (found here), the race for Purdue’s starting quarterback job is a tight one. I think the starter for the Northwestern game will be named the last week of camp, but that might only settle it for the Northwestern game. I expect this to be a season long competition unless one quarterback clearly outplays the other.

That being said, we’ve got to have a starter for Northwestern, so here is how I evaluate Elijah Sindelar as a starting quarterback.

Pros:

Momentum

Sindelar took over the quarterback position full time after Blough’s devastating ankle injury, and put together a stretch of four games Purdue hasn’t seen since Kyle Orton. In the final 4…