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.
In: 2973
4 years of eligibility, 1 COVID year, and 1 standard redshirt year gets you to 6 years. You can also get a medical redshirt to get you up to 7.
Medical redshirts are given if a few conditions are met. 1) you have a season ending injury 2) the injury occurs before the halfway point of the season and 3) you play in fewer than 30% of your teams total games. Theoretically there is no limit to the number of medical redshirts a player can get.
Northern Illinois had a player (Kyle Pugh) had an 8 year college career after getting 2 medical redshirts.
Latest Answers