The knee injury for D.J. Knox cast a pall on an otherwise beautiful day in West Lafayette.
There was a lot of good on the field Saturday at Ross-Ade Stadium. Yes, that good is mostly relative to what we have seen recently from Purdue football, but when you're at rock bottom you will latch on to anything positive. That said, all the good seemed to be undone midway through the second quarter. Junior running back D.J. Knox planted and crumbled to the turf with a non-contact knee injury. Knox, who rushed for 409 yards and 2 TDs and caught 26 passes for 189 yards last year, was determined to likely have a torn ACL, putting his 2016 in severe jeopardy.