{"id":696398,"date":"2026-06-10T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696398\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:28:08","slug":"four-star-safety-kaleb-elkins-locks-in-with-purdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696398\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star safety Kaleb Elkins locks in with Purdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis (Ind.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/warren-central-indianapolis-in-6975\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Central<\/a> four-star safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/kaleb-elkins-249256\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleb Elkins<\/a> tells Rivals he has committed to Purdue.<\/p>\n<p>The coveted in-state target took his official visit to West Lafayette over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed my time in West Lafayette,\u201d Elkins said. \u201cThe relationships I built with the coaches, staff, and players stood out the most, and I can see myself developing both on and off the field there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elkins is commit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/purdue-boilermakers\/football\/2027\/commits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 12 for head coach Barry Odom and his staff in the 2027 cycle<\/a>. He chose Purdue over Vanderbilt and several others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited about the opportunity to compete at a high level, continue growing as a player, and change the narrative about Purdue football,\u201d Elkins said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to my future in West Lafayette and everything that comes with being a Boilermaker!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rivals Industry ranks Elkins as the nation\u2019s No. 20 safety and No. 249 prospect overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be the beginning of Purdue\u2019s turnaround,\u201d Elkins reiterated. \u201cI want to put the program on my back and lead them to the postseason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indianapolis (Ind.) Warren Central four-star safety Kaleb Elkins tells Rivals he has committed to Purdue. The coveted in-state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,417,301706,398,396,397,99,301707],"class_list":["post-696398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-in","tag-kaleb-elkins-27-warren-central","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-warren-central-warriors-indianapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}