59 Days to Purdue Football: Thomas Tinsley – Hammer and Rails

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Tinsley will need to bulk up in order to see the field.
Today is 59 days until kickoff of Purdue football so we turn our sights to #59 Thomas Tinsley.
Player: Thomas Tinsley
Position: OL
Year: Redshirt Freshman
Height: 6’ 6”
Weight: 240 lbs
2024 Outlook: OL Reserve
There’s no two ways about it here. Tinsley is not expected to make an impact this season. Tinsley currently weighs in at 240 pounds, assuming the weights on the Purdue Sports website are accurate, and that just isn’t what you want to see out of one your starting offensive lineman. We’d really like to get that up another 30+ pounds depending on the particular position that Tinsley slots himself into. Marcus Mbow for example who is slated to be a starter on the right side of the line is currently 6’5” (one inch shorter than Tinsley) and weighs in at 305 pounds. I’m not saying that Tinsley needs to weight in at 305 in order to find himself a starting role on the OL, but I’m simply saying that at 240 pounds there is work to do,
Tinsley came to Purdue from Dyer, Indiana out of Lake Central high school. He participated in both swimming and Track and Field in high school along with, of course, football. The Purdue sports bio of him includes this interesting nugget:
Was a scholar-athlete and voted best all-around senior
Imagine being voted best all-around senior. It doesn’t indicate that this means senior athlete so I like to assume that Tinsely was just the best senior class member regardless of category. I hope that one is in the yearbook.
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