GoldandBlack.com's 20-year Purdue player draft: Pick No. 48
To help commemorate the 20-year anniversary of Purdue's magical turnaround 1997 season, GoldandBlack.com's staff will break up the rosters and select the best players to wear a Boilermaker uniform since Coach Joe Tiller's first season on the sidelines.
GoldandBlack.com's 20-year Purdue player draft will have 100 players chosen — two picks each weekday over 10 weeks. Boilermakers who were on Purdue rosters between 1997-2017 are eligible for selection. The draft order is Alan Karpick, Stacy Clardie, Kyle Charters and Brian Neubert.
Neubert continues running rougshod over his colleagues with Pick No. 48.
Draft ticker: Nos. 1-47
If we were drafting these players on their physical, uh, impressiveness, Joe Odom might be a top two or three pick, with perhaps only Dustin Keller topping him for the title of Purdue's Greatest Freakshow. I mean that, of course, as a compliment.
Odom came to Purdue as a maybe 210-pound middle linebacker. Over time, he grew into a 230-pound outside linebacker who ran like a wide receiver and could have lifted Ross-Ade Stadium over his head.
He was the ultimate workout warrior, a guy who had every measurable on his side, but he turned his physical gifts into production, too, particularly once Purdue flip-flopped he and Niko Koutouvides inside-outside, putting them both in more natural comfort zones.
I'm building my whole team on speed and in Odom and Landon Johnson, I have two blistering-fast outside linebackers and two who were pretty damn good as Boilermakers.
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