How can a college athlete in the United States have seven years in a collegiate sport?

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Watching LSU Florida State game and overheard one of the commentators say that one of the players had seven years in college football? I don’t know that much about college sports, but even if you take into account red shirting and the extra COVID time, seven years doesn’t seem like it should be possible.

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Basically, for a redshirt you get an extra year but aren’t allowed to play in a game or it counts as a “real” year, and then for severe enough injuries or health reasons you can get years back. I played with someone who played for 7 years bc he was out for 2 seasons due to the same knee injury. NCAA said it was ok and let him play, because he was in post-grad he counted as a current student.

Also they “refunded” a year of eligibility to people who were enrolled and were on the team in 2020 bc COVID.

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