College football is back, y’all. We’ve got Lee Corso putting on headgear again, Gus Johnson screaming at the top of his lungs and fans getting angry about blackouts.
And we’ve got wild highlights. At Ross–Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana on Saturday, Purdue started the Ryan Walters era off with a bang.
On the seventh play of the game, quarterback Hudson Card dropped back on third-and-2, found receiver Deion Burks in the middle of the field and let him do the rest. In a wild sequence of events, the 5-foot-11 redshirt sophomore left one defender in the dust, and then proceeded to literally bounce off four other Fresno State defenders on his way to an 84-yard touchdown to open the scoring on the season for the Boilermakers.
He is GONE! Touchdown for @BoilerFootball by @deionkburks
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— Big Ten Football (@B1Gfootball) September 2, 2023
What makes this play even more awesome is that it’s the first touchdown Burks has scored in his collegiate career. In the previous two seasons, he caught 16 passes for 175 yards.
It’s safe to say that he’ll probably be a bigger part of the Purdue offense going forward.