Purdue’s Hudson Card embracing leadership role in year two

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Last season, Purdue quarterback Hudson Card didn’t want to come on too strong as a leader of the team. He decided to just put his head down and work.

Now, he’s becoming more active in his leadership. He’s focused on making relationships with his teammates, focusing specifically on how to interact with each of his teammates differently.

This offseason, he’s had more time to get to know his teammates and build those relationships.

“From a leadership standpoint, he’s more comfortable now,” Purdue head coach Ryan Walters sad. “He knows his teammates. He knows how they operate. He knows what we want out of him as a leader, and it has been fun to see him embrace that aspect of playing the position.”

Card has been impressed with the locker room chemistry the team has had already.

With 37 new faces on the team this year, the assumption would be that it would take some time for everyone to bond. But, that has not been the case.

“This is one of the tighter locker rooms that I’ve been a part of,” Card said.

He said that the guys that returned from last year’s team were already super close and that the new guys got there in January, which made a huge difference in helping them build chemistry already.

Despite the chemistry, there are question marks surrounding the success of Purdue’s team this season. They brought in top-30 recruitin...