WEST LAFAYETTE − Purdue basketball has added more potency to future lineups.
Jacob Webber, a 6-foot-6 wing, committed to the Boilermakers on Tuesday.
Webber will play for LaLumiere this season after spending the past two years at Kearney (Nebraska), where he scored 931 points over 47 games, including averaging 21.7 points per game last season.
He joins point guard Luke Ertel to give Purdue two top 100 recruits (according to 247Sports) in its 2026 class.
Webber had eight power conference offers, most notably from Tennessee and Purdue.
How does Jacob Webber impact Purdue basketball?
Purdue’s current roster has five seniors, two of them whose strongest asset is outside shooting in Fletcher Loyer and Liam Murphy.
Webber made 171 3-pointers over the past two seasons at Kearney, shooting 42% from beyond the arc.
Webber averaged 3.1 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.7 steals, and 0.5 blocks per game last season. In a February victory over Benson High, Webber scored a career-high 32 points, sinking 10 of 20 3s.
Purdue basketball’s 2026 roster
The Boilermakers will lose Braden Smith, Trey Kaufman-Renn, Oscar Cluff, Loyer, and Murphy that we know.
If everything else remains as is, Webber and Ertel will join a roster that will include Omer Mayer, Antione West, and Jack Benter as sophomores and a junior crew of Daniel Jacobsen, CJ Cox, Gicarri Harris, and Raleigh Burgess as expected contributors. Walk-ons Jack Lusk and Jace Rayl, as of now, would be the only seniors, and guard Aaron Fine would be a redshirt sophomore.
Sam King covers sports for the Journal & Courier. Email him at sking@jconline.com and follow him on X and Instagram @samueltking.
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Reporting by Sam King, Lafayette Journal & Courier / Lafayette Journal & Courier
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