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Hilltoppers' leading tackler Holt transferring to Purdue

Linebacker Ben Holt will leave the Hilltopper football program for his redshirt senior season and play in 2019 for the Boilermakers, the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal & Courier reported Thursday.

Purdue cannot confirm Holt's addition until he enrolls in grad classes there this summer after graduating from WKU in May.

Holt is the third Topper that Purdue coach Jeff Brohm – WKU's head man from 2014-16 – has landed in West Lafayette, Ind., as a graduate transfer.

Linebacker T.J. McCollum played his final year of college football for the Boilermakers in 2017, and offensive lineman Dennis Edwards did the same last year.