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Revamped Secondary: Purdue Looking to Fresh Faces to Shore Up Defensive Backfield

In past seasons, a new coach would largely be stuck with the players that had been in the program from his predecessor and it took time to get the players into the program to fit your system. When that program had a struggling position group, there wasn’t much to do but hope your developmental program could help them make the jump. In today’s college football landscape, new coach doesn’t have to wait and evidence of that couldn’t be stronger than what Purdue Head Coach Ryan Walters has done with his cornerback room in his first spring.

Although Purdue had a draft worthy cornerback in Cory Trice Jr.