A decision has been made: Ryan Browne will be Purdue’s starting quarterback. Barry Odom made it official after practice today. “Ryan Browne will be the starting quarterback going into this first game,” said Odom. “We’re super excited about our quarterback room and the progress of every single one. I can talk for a long time […]
A decision has been made: Ryan Browne will be Purdue’s starting quarterback. Barry Odom made it official after practice today.
“Ryan Browne will be the starting quarterback going into this first game,” said Odom. “We’re super excited about our quarterback room and the progress of every single one. I can talk for a long time about the progress that that room has made. We also believe, as a staff, that we’ve got a room full of guys in that position group that can play winning football. So, excited about what all of them have done up to this point. Ryan will be the starter.”
Why Browne?
“I think the answer to that question would be obvious, it’s that he’s been the most consistent through camp,” said OC Josh Henson. “That has been a tough battle in that room, for sure. There’s a lot of guys competing for that job, and did a great job, and got a lot better. And so I feel really good about the quarterback room.”
Browne had been considered by most to be the front-runner for the job over Malachi Singleton after he transferred back to Purdue in the spring from North Carolina, where he left for after a coaching change in West Lafayette.
Browne has been taking exclusively first-team reps in recent days as camp came to a conclusion.
Purdue opens the season on August 30 vs. Ball State.
“Great leadership qualities every day,” said Henson. “His intangibles are phenomenal, especially only being a part of team for three or four months in the relationship he’s developed with the team, and his ability to lead them. Because you have to earn the respect for them to allow you to lead them in a way that he does, because he’s vocal about it, and he’s intense about it. And that’s to me one of the best parts about him, and who he is as a leader on the team, and who he is as a quarterback.”
The 6-4, 210-pound Browne showed promise last season at Purdue as a redshirt freshman. He played in eight games, making starts in October at Illinois and vs. Oregon–when Hudson Card was injured.
Browne nearly delivered a win at Illinois, as the Boilermakers fell, 50-49, in OT. He threw for 297 yards (18-of-26 passing, 69 percent) and 3 TDs and ran for 118 yards on 17 carries (6.9 ypc) vs. the Illini.
Browne completed 43-of-76 passes (56.6 percentage) for 532 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions in 2024. He also ran for 155 yards last season (3.1 yards per carry) during a 1-11 campaign that saw Purdue move on from Ryan Walters.
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