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Gold and Black Radio: Purdue readies for Rutgers in search of win

by: Derek Schultz6 hours ago
GBR 10-21-2025


In our Oct. 21 edition, GoldandBlack.com’s Dub Jellison and Tom Dienhart talk Purdue football with host Derek Schultz as the Boilermakers ready for a Homecoming battle with Rutgers.

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Purdue football’s two questions:

(an excerpt from Tom Dienhart’s 3-2-1 column)

1 – Do play-calls differ if Malachi Singleton starts over Browne?

The answer is “yes.”

“There’s more things we feel comfortable with him doing in a quarterback run game than we do Ryan,” said Henson. “But from the passing game standpoint part of it, I called all the same plays.

“I’ve said this before, the battle for the starting job was, it was a battle. When we announced that, it literally led up into that (first) week. So, Malachi is a really good player that can win games. And he came in and did a nice job executing (at Northwestern).

At Northwestern, Singleton was 11-of-20 passing for 187 yards with an interception and a lost fumble to go with 20 yards rushing on 10 carries. On the season, he has hit 57 percent of his passes (16-of-28) for 255 yards with a TD and two interceptions. He also has carried 25 times for 142 yards with a TD.

2 – Seven games in, what is offensive identity?

Purdue is No. 9 in the Big Ten in total offense (393. ypg), No. 15 in scoring (22.7 ppg), No. 12 in rushing (130.9 ypg) and No. 9 in passing (263.0 ypg).

So, is Purdue a running offense? A passing offense?

“I think the identity of the offense right now is that we’re not finishing drives,” said Henson. “Everything we’re doing I love and I think we’re doing it really well and at really high level at times. We’re just not being consistent. So, if anything, our identity is we’re not consistent. We gotta get consistent. We get it consistent, and we just make the other team beat us, and we don’t beat ourselves, we will be what we want to be.”

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