Apparently, Elijah Sindelar is one tough individual.
In Wednesday night’s Foster Farms Bowl, Sindelar’s career-high 396 yards passing helped lead Purdue to a wild 36-35 win over Arizona. For that performance, the sophomore quarterback was named as the game’s offensive MVP.
Following the win, Jeff Brohm revealed that Sindelar suffered a torn ACL in the Nov. 11 loss to Northwestern yet continued to play.
“It’s truly amazing,” the head coach said by way of the Journal & Courier. “For a college player to do that and play at that level, it’s more than impressive.”
In the four games in which he played on a torn ACL, Sindelar completed 107 of his 179 passes (59.8 percent), 11 touchdowns and a pair of interceptions.
Sindelar took over as the starter in early November after David Blough suffered a dislocated right ankle, a broken fibula and ligament tears. Sindelar suffered his knee injury in his first start after Blough sustained his season-ending injury.