2025-2026 Season Stats (La Lumiere School)
15 games; (EYBL only)
20.7 minutes per game
11.87 ppg
41% FG% (53/130)
39.4% 3pt% (41/104)
1.8 rebounds per game
.2 assists per game
.27 steals per game
.2 blocks per game
2025-2026 Season Awards / Honors:
Rivals: #56
ESPN: #72
247: #63
Season Look Ahead:
As Purdue gears up for the 2026–27 men’s basketball season, the Boilermakers will welcome an incredibly specialized weapon in four-star freshman wing Jacob Webber. Standing at 6-foot-6, the Kearney, Nebraska native spent his senior season playing against elite national competition after transferring
to La Lumiere School before signing with Purdue. Webber was also heavily pursued by Tennessee, Cincinnati, Iowa, and Nebraska.
Webber saw his stock rise over the last two seasons following impressive showings on the EYBL and Adidas 3SSB circuits. Becoming a top 100 recruit, Webber will arrive on campus being named the best shooter in the entire 2026 national class by recruiting experts at Rivals and On3. For a Purdue program that historically thrives on lethal perimeter spacing and shooting to partner with their dominant bigs, Webber possesses the sheer shot-making talent to step onto campus as the best shooter on the team.
Diving into Webber’s high school and grassroots games reveals a player with a truly elite, specialized skill set. Webber consistently proved to be one of the toughest perimeter shot-makers in high school basketball as shown by 247’s Adam Finkelstein’s assessment:
Webber is one of the toughest three-point shot-makers in high school basketball. He can stop on a dime in transition, fly off pin-downs to make movement threes, make them with deep range, and an exceptionally quick release. He’s a true specialist who attempted nearly 80% of his total shots from behind the arc this 3SSB season, converting of 36% of them. His willingness to settle for, if not hunt, these tougher threes was the reason that percentage wasn’t even higher, but when he gets hot, he can make them in extreme bunches. His 88% from the free-throw line only further illustrates his shooting prowess.
This limitless range and shooting ability gives Webber extreme offensive gravity, a trait highly valued by Head Coach Matt Painter. His presence on the floor, similar to that of shooters like Ryne Cline and Fletcher Loyer, fundamentally changes opposing defensive coverages and drastically improves his team’s spacing. He is the exact type of movement sniper who can open up PJ Thompson’s playbook, allowing the coaching staff to run him off creative staggered screens, baseline actions, and setting his feet off ball. Technically and physically, he possesses excellent size on the wing and has fluid athleticism that raises the ceiling for the traditional wings Purdue has seen over the last several years (Cam Heide not withstanding). Though he looks relatively lean right now, he is actually older for his class, suggesting his frame will fill out sooner rather than later under Purdue’s strength and conditioning program to unlock more of his potential as a defender and .
Looking ahead to the upcoming season, Webber will likely project as a key depth piece at the small forward position as he transitions to the grueling physicality of Big Ten basketball. Realistically, expect Webber to carve out a role playing roughly 10 to 12 minutes per game early on. He enters a loaded perimeter rotation that features an established bevy of talented guards and wings, including CJ Cox, Omer Mayer, Gicarri Harris, and potentially Caden Pierce if Purdue opts to play a bigger frontcourt alongside Daniel Jacobsen, Raleigh Burgess, and Sinan Huan. When sketching out his long-term trajectory, Webber may end up as a potentially more athletic iteration of former legendary Purdue sharpshooters like Ryan Cline and Ryne Smith. If he can quickly grasp Painter’s defensive assignments, his explosive microwave scoring from deep will provide the Boilermakers with an invaluable weapon off the bench this next season.
