Trey Kaufman Renn 2026 NBA Draft: Purdue Star Begins Minnesota Timberwolves Journey

Trey Kaufman Renn is done with college basketball. The Purdue forward used up his eligibility in the spring of 2026, and the Minnesota Timberwolves called his name at pick 59 of that summer’s NBA Draft. He is a rookie now, not a Boilermaker. 

Here is the quick answer. Kaufman-Renn spent five years at Purdue, redshirted the first one, and walked away with 1,655 points and 762 rebounds. Minnesota drafted him 59th overall in the second round. He wore No. 14 for the Timberwolves in Las Vegas Summer League this July and is chasing a training camp roster spot. 

Detail	Fact
Full name	Trey Bellamy Kaufman-Renn
Born	August 19, 2002, in Sellersburg, Indiana
Height and weight	6-9, 240 lbs
Position	Power forward
High school	Silver Creek, Sellersburg, Indiana
College	Purdue, 2021-22 through 2025-26
Purdue career	1,655 points, 762 rebounds, 235 assists
2026 NBA Draft	Pick 59, second round, Minnesota Timberwolves
Current team	Minnesota Timberwolves, No. 14

Key Takeaways

• His college career is over. The 2025-26 season was his last at Purdue. 
• Minnesota picked him at No. 59, the second-to-last selection of the 2026 draft. 
• His 1,655 career points rank 18th on Purdue’s all-time list. 
• His peak was 2024-25: 20.1 points a game on 59.5% shooting. 
• He missed two games in five years, both after a hip problem as a senior. 
• Nothing about his Minnesota deal is guaranteed yet. Training camp decides it. 

Who is Trey Kaufman Renn?

Sellersburg, a small town in southern Indiana, raised him, and he never left the state to play his basketball. At Silver Creek High School, he set school records with 1,832 points and 867 rebounds. As a senior, he averaged 24.5 points and 11.8 rebounds and led Silver Creek to the 2021 Class 3A state title. 

Recruiters noticed. Rivals ranked him 32nd nationally in the 2021 class, ESPN had him 39th, and 247Sports slotted him 40th. Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia all offered. Purdue won, an hour and a half up the road. In the Indiana Mr. Basketball vote, he finished runner-up to Caleb Furst, who became his teammate in West Lafayette. 

Trey Kaufman Renn detail gets skipped in most write-ups: he studied philosophy at Purdue, not the usual athlete-friendly major. You can find the rest of our athlete profiles filed the same way, with the background that shaped the player rather than a stat dump. 

The Purdue Career, Season by Season

His first year barely happened. A knee injury in early November 2021 needed surgery; Purdue redshirted him, and he was back on the floor by March. What followed was four seasons of steady, unglamorous growth behind and then in front of some very good big men. 

Season	Games	Points per game	Rebounds per game	Field goal %
2021-22	0, redshirt after knee surgery	n/a	n/a	n/a
2022-23	35	4.5	1.8	n/a
2023-24	39	6.4	4.0	51.1%
2024-25	36	20.1	6.5	59.5%
2025-26	37	14.2	8.3	57.8%

One jump changed his life, and it came between 2023-24 and 2024-25. He went from 17 minutes a night to a first-team All-Big Ten forward who led the country with 292 field goals made. That season brought 723 points, a total only nine Boilermakers have ever beaten in a single year. Twenty-point games came 19 times, more than anyone else in the conference managed. 

His scoring dipped as a senior. His usefulness did not. Rebounds climbed from 6.5 to 8.3, assists rose to 2.5, and he still shot 57.8% while defenses built their whole plan around stopping him. 

Awards, Honors, and The Numbers Behind Them

• First-team All-Big Ten in 2024-25, plus honorable mention All-America from the Associated Press and third-team All-America from CBS Sports. 
• Karl Malone Award finalist as a senior, given to the country’s top power forward. 
• Three-time Big Ten Player of the Week during his junior season. 
• Big Ten All-Academic Team in both 2022-23 and 2023-24. 
• Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year as a high school junior. 

Add up the four seasons, and you get 1,655 points, 762 rebounds, and 235 assists. That puts him 18th in scoring and 11th in rebounding in Purdue history. Only Walter Jordan, Vince Edwards, and Robbie Hummel have cleared 1,600 points, 750 rebounds, and 225 assists in a Purdue uniform. None of them did it while shooting better than 55% from the floor. If you want to know how we check figures like these before publishing, how Gamerlume verifies its numbers lays out the process. 

How Did His Last College Season End?

A hip problem kept him out of the first two games of 2025-26. Those were the only two games he missed in his entire Purdue career. He started the other 37. Purdue went 30-9 and 13-7 in the Big Ten. In the NCAA Tournament, the Boilermakers beat Queens 104-71, then Miami 79-69. The Sweet 16 against Texas came down to a tip-in he put back with 0.6 seconds left for a 79-77 win. Arizona ended the run in the Elite Eight, 79-64. 

Across those four tournament games, he averaged 18.5 points and 7.0 rebounds on 57% shooting. Earlier that season, he had posted a career-high 27 points and 12 rebounds against top-ranked Michigan and pulled down 19 rebounds in a road win at No. 7 Nebraska. Eleven double-doubles in one year is a lot for a player who was a bench piece two seasons earlier. 

Draft Night: What Pick 59 Actually Means

The 2026 NBA Draft ran across two nights at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, June 23 and 24. Minnesota used the 59th pick, the 29th of the second round, on him. Purdue point guard Braden Smith had already gone 38th to the Chicago Bulls, making it a two-player draft class for the Boilermakers. 

Getting drafted at all is rarer than the highlight reels suggest. A 2026 study in the journal Sports Health followed 627 top-ranked American high school players. It found that only 40 of them, roughly 6%, had signed an NBA contract by age 22. Kaufman-Renn sat inside that same top-40 talent pool as a recruit, and it still took five college years to arrive. 

Pick 59 carries no guarantees. Second-round selections do not get the guaranteed rookie-scale contract that first-rounders sign. Instead, most of them take a two-way deal, a camp invite, or a season in the G League. Minnesota has not publicly confirmed which of those he is on. 

What’s Next With the Timberwolves?

Minnesota gave him No. 14 at the Las Vegas Summer League, which ran from July 9 to July 19. A mouth contusion in the July 12 game against Denver knocked him out briefly. Two days later, against Portland, he was back on the floor. 

From here the path is narrow but familiar. A late second-rounder earns a camp invite. From there he competes with two-way players and undrafted free agents, then tries to prove one skill an NBA coach needs on a given night. In his case, that skill is obvious: he scores inside efficiently, and he shot better than 57% in each of his last two college seasons against high-major defenses. 

Watch Three Things This Fall

• Whether Minnesota keeps him on a two-way contract past camp. 
• How many G League minutes the Iowa Wolves hand him. 
• Any sign of a reliable jump shot, the one-hole-in-a-game built around the paint. 

Conclusion

Trey Kaufman Renn leaves Purdue with a reputation as one of the program’s most reliable and productive forwards, finishing his college career with 1,655 points, 762 rebounds, and a long list of individual honors. Being selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the 59th pick in the 2026 NBA Draft marks the beginning of a new challenge rather than the end of his basketball journey. We cover this in more depth in Kyshawn George 2026-27 Outlook.

While a second-round selection does not guarantee an NBA roster spot, his efficient scoring, rebounding ability, toughness, and consistent improvement give him a realistic opportunity to earn a role. The months ahead in training camp and the G League will be crucial, but Kaufman-Renn has already shown throughout his career that he can develop and exceed expectations.

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