Barry Odom adds Jake Trump from Arkansas as DE coach

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Barry Odom has a defensive coach: Jake Trump, who comes to Purdue from Arkansas, where he has coached since 2020.

As the defensive quality control coach at Arkansas, Trump played linebacker at Missouri (2015-18), where Odom was the head coach from 2016-19. Trump is the second Arkansas coach to join Odom’s maiden Purdue staff as Kelvin Green was named defensive line coach on Wednesday.

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Trump began his career as a student assistant at Mizzou in 2019 before working as a GA at Nevada in 2020.

Trump is a native of Kahoka, Mo.

Purdue has now officially hired four assistants: Trump, DL Kelvin Green, OC/TE Josh Henson and RB Lamar Conard.

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