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2017 Weekly Boiler Stat Summaries: Foster Farms Bowl v. Arizona

Yes, I know the bowl game was almost a month ago and I promised a significant amount more content than I actually produced. However, the current project in my day job has taken most of my time, bandwidth, and energy, so that significantly delayed this post. But it’s here. Finally. The stat summary for Purdue’s first bowl victory since before I became a brother of Kappa Kappa Psi. Purdue Quarterback: ACLs Not Required Elijah Sindelar is only the latest player to have suffered an ACL tear as a result of whatever is in the West Lafayette water causing the injury endemic for Boilermakers of all sports. Sindelar’s performance while playing injured since the Northwestern game as been pretty decent, including the Foster Farms Bowl [1]. Figure 1: Purdue Individual Passing Statistics [2,3] Sindelar, with only a single functioning knee, threw 53 passes for 396 yards, with a completion percentage of 62.26% and 6.61 yards per dropback. Given the Boilers were facing an Arizona de