Purdue Transfer QB Brady Allen Commits to Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Louisville football program has landed another quarterback from out of the transfer portal that has familiarity with the current staff and system.
Brady Allen, who spent spent his true freshman campaign with Jeff Brohm and Purdue before entering the transfer portal during the spring window last month, announced Tuesday that he is reuniting with Brohm at Louisville and has committed to the Cardinals. He has four seasons of eligibility remaining.
The towering 6-foot-6, 210-pound signal caller saw action in just one game for the Boilermakers last year in his first year at the college level. He went 1-for-3 for eight yards in their 56-10 win over Indiana State on Sept. 10.
The Fort Branch (Ind.) Gibson Southern product was a highly-regarded prospect coming out of high school. He was ranked as the No. 131 prospect in the Class of 2022 according to Rivals, and chose Purdue over offers from Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Virginia Tech, West Virginia and others.
Throughout his high school career, Allen put up video game type numbers. As a senior, he completed 68.7 percent of his passes for 4,253 yards and 58 touchdowns to only six interceptions, leading the Titans to a 14-1 record and Indiana Class 3A State Championship. He threw for 11,918 yards and 149 touchdowns to just 25 interceptions over the course of his high school career, with the touchdown mark good for first in IHSAA history and the yardage good for second.
Louisville now has a pair of quarterbacks on their roster with prior ties to head coach Jeff Brohm. Jack Plummer, who joined the Cardinals after a year at Cal and is the runaway frontrunner to start in 2023, spent the first four years of his collegiate career with Brohm at Purdue.
Louisville has been incredibly active in the transfer portal since Brohm was hired in December. While the Cardinals have lost 21 players via the portal since the end of the 2022 regular season, Allen is now the 21st to transfer in over the offseason, and the ninth since mid-April.
The Cardinals finished their 2022 season with an overall mark of 8-5 (4-4 in ACC), including a 24-7 win in the Fenway Bowl over Cincinnati. They'll kick off their 2023 season against Georgia Tech in the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga. on Friday, Sept. 1.
(Photo of Brady Allen: Alex Martin - Journal and Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK)
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