Purdue Football Picks Up Walk-On Commitment From In-State Offensive Lineman
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Purdue added a walk-on commitment to its 2025 recruiting class over the weekend. Carmel (Ind.) standout Sankeerth Veluri announced his pledge to the Boilermakers in a social media post on Saturday. He was previously committed to play college football at Army.
Sankeerth will provide depth along the offensive line for Purdue, a position group that needs more bodies as spring practice winds down. His commitment comes as the Boilermakers enter their final week of spring football under first-year coach Barry Odom.
1000% COMMITTED ॐ BOILER UP 🚂 @BoilerFootball @VanceVice @JSimmons_Purdue @CoachWrightIU @CoachAaron_Hahn @Coach_EQuintana @chub_gotti0 @JJurasevich @IndianaPreps @SWiltfong_ @Bryan_Ault @PrepRedzoneIN pic.twitter.com/PShZkJe53e
— Sankeerth Veluri (@SankeerthVeluri) April 6, 2025
Per 247Sports, Veluri is a two-star recruit and is listed at 6-foot-5, 270 pounds. He received 10 offers on the recruiting front and initially committed to Army before flipping to Purdue. Others to extend offers included Brown, Bucknell, Central Michigan, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Illinois State, Indiana State and Penn.
Because of the offseason coaching change from Ryan Walters to Odom, Purdue's incoming recruiting class is awfully thin. The Boilers have seven early enrollees, five players who have signed their National Letter of Intent and three "hard commitments," bring their total to 15 for the 2025 cycle.
As a result, Odom and his staff focused their efforts on recruiting from the transfer portal, something the program is likely to do again when the spring window opens later this month.
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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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