Former Purdue Boilermakers guard Fletcher Loyer has been waived by the Los Angeles Clippers, ending a training-camp stay that began with an Exhibit 10 contract in late June.
For Boilermaker fans, the move is less a verdict on his college career than a reminder of how thin the margin is between an undrafted shooter and an NBA roster.
Loyer arrived in West Lafayette from Homestead in Fort Wayne and never left the starting lineup. He and point guard Braden Smith started all 149 games of their careers, a school record for games played and started.
Loyer finished with 1,829 points, 11th on Purdue’s scoring list, and left as the program’s all-time leader in made threes with 309 at 41.1 percent. As a senior, he averaged 14.1 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists while leading the Big Ten in three-point percentage at 43.2.
He was one of only four players in school history, alongside Robbie Hummel, E’Twaun Moore and Walter Jordan, to score at least 375 points in each of four seasons.
The résumé was built in the games Purdue fans still replay. Loyer was a starter on the 2024 team that reached the national title game, and he was part of two Big Ten regular-season titles and two Big Ten Tournament championships.
Three-time honorable-mention All-Big Ten, he was the complementary piece next to Zach Edey and then next to Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn: a catch-and-shoot guard who also punished closeouts with a pump fake and a floater.
Athleticism was the knock. Volume and accuracy from the arc were the answer.
That profile is why the Clippers brought him in after he went undrafted. His father, John Loyer, is the franchise’s director of pro scouting, so the building was familiar long before the contract.
An Exhibit 10 is a non-guaranteed camp deal, not a roster promise. It gives a shooter a summer-league and preseason audition and, if he is waived before the season and spends at least 60 days with the San Diego Clippers, a bonus of up to about $91,000.
Monday’s waiver puts Loyer on that path.
The rest of last year’s core has already scattered into the league in some form. Smith was drafted and landed with the Indiana Pacers. Kaufman-Renn signed with the Timberwolves.
Oscar Cluff got a summer-league look with Houston. Loyer’s next stop is almost certainly the G League, where the same shot that rewrote Purdue’s record book is the skill that still has a professional market.
Camp cuts are routine in October. A 41 percent career three-point shooter who never missed a start at Mackey Arena is not.
