Hammer and Rails · Jun 13, 2018
The new Redshirt rule will benefit Purdue
Every now and again the NCAA gets together and decides to do something other than embarrass its self. This is one such occasion.
In summary, today the NCAA announced that starting this season, players can appear in up to four games without losing their ability to redshirt (if they haven’t used a redshirt year already).
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This is great news for a program like Purdue that likes to redshirt a significant portion of their freshman class every season.
In the 2017 class Purdue signed 24 players and redshirted 13 players in the class. Essentially, Purdue played the season utilizing 72 of its allotted 85 scholarships.