Purdue is in a strange spot with its 2022-23 roster. It is rare that two players in a given class redshirt, but that is what we had this past season. Coach Painter has liberally used the redshirt to mixed results, as only Robbie Hummel and Sasha Stefanovic stayed all five years (and Hummel’s was due to injury). The basic idea is that you get a guy to develop in a year where he wouldn’t play much anyway, then cash in with four productive years instead of three.
The 2019-20 season was a roll of the dice in that regard.