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Purdue Names Team Captains for 2025 Football Season

Purdue has announced its team captains for the 2025 college football season. The Boilermakers hit the field on Saturday, Aug. 30 against Ball State.
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Purdue Boilermakers running back Devin Mockobee (45) runs the ball
Purdue Boilermakers running back Devin Mockobee (45) runs the ball | Craig Strobeck-Imagn Images

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Purdue has named its team captains for the 2025 college football season. The announcement came on Friday, a week before the Boilermakers hit the field at Ross-Ade Stadium for their season opener against Ball State on Saturday, Aug. 30.

There will be eight team captains for the Boilers this year, as voted by the team. The players who have been named captains for the upcoming season are:

  • QB Ryan Browne
  • RB Devin Mockobee
  • DB An'Darius Coffey
  • DB Tony Grimes
  • LB Mani Powell
  • WR Michael Jackson III
  • DE CJ Madden
  • OL Jalen St. John

Purdue is entering its first season under coach Barry Odom, hoping to get off to a strong start with home games against Ball State and Southern Illinois on the schedule to start the year. Things get much tougher in a hurry, as the Boilermakers then host USC on Saturday, Sept. 13 at Ross-Ade Stadium before a trip to South Bend to play Notre Dame on Sept. 20.

It will be interesting to see how much this Purdue team has improved from last year and if Odom and his staff can get the Boilermakers back to bowl eligibility in Year 1.

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Dustin Schutte
DUSTIN SCHUTTE

Dustin Schutte is the publisher of Purdue Boilermakers on SI and has spent more than a decade working in sports journalism. His career began in 2013, when he covered Big Ten football. He remained in that role for eight years before working at On SI to cover the Boilermakers. Dustin graduated from Manchester University in Indiana in 2010, where he played for the men's tennis team.

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