Purdue will have almost complete turnover with it specialists this coming season, but a key starter is returning in today’s player.
Nick Zecchino - Sr. (6)
Cedar Grove, NJ (Cedar Grove HS)
6’, 210 pounds
Long Snapper
2021 Projection: Starter at long snapper
Zecchino has been around the college game a long time. In the season’s second game he will face his old school, as he played in all 12 games for UConn in 2016. He then lost his entire 2017 and 2018 seasons due to health issues:
Their son was about to play in a college football game 10 months following his third surgery for ulcerative colitis, which ravaged his body and sliced his weight 55 pounds to 145 in a span of about 90 days at the end of the 2016 season while at Connecticut.