Chandler Morris, who led UVA Football to an 11-win season in 2025, and is still a University of Virginia grad student, is back in court trying to get the NCAA to grant him a seventh year of athletics eligibility.
ESPN reported on Tuesday that Morris has filed suit in Charlottesville Circuit Court seeking a preliminary injunction against the NCAA after the body ruled against his request for a medical redshirt last month.
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The NCAA, in response to this week’s news, issued a tone-deaf statement accusing Morris and others like him filing suits seeking eligibility waivers of trying to “rob high school students across the nation of the opportunity to compete in college and experience the life-changing opportunities only college sports can create.”
Oughta sue whichever PR flunky they had there in Indianapolis write that and send that out.
At issue is Morris’s 2022 season at TCU, where Morris was the QB1 for the opener, but was injured 35 snaps into the 38-13 win at Colorado.
Backup Max Duggan stepped in and put up Heisman finalist numbers – passing for 3,698 yards and 32 TDs, and adding 423 yards and nine TDs on the ground.
Morris went on to play in three more games that season – getting three snaps in the 34-24 win over Texas Tech on Nov. 5, 18 snaps at the end of the 62-14 TCU win at Iowa State on Nov. 26, and five snaps at the end of the 65-7 loss to Georgia in the CFP title game.
In his suit, Morris contends that the late-season snaps were part of a medically prescribed mental health treatment plan, which, that’s unique – take snaps in three FBS games for a national title contender, and we’ll get together on Mondays at 2 p.m. to talk it out.
You shouldn’t expect a resolution in Morris’s favor in this case to get him back into the UVA Football program for another run at it in the fall.
After the NCAA ruling in the Morris case was handed down on Jan. 9, the program got commitments from former Missouri QB1 Beau Pribula and former Pitt QB1 Eli Holstein, who will go into spring practice next month as the 1 and 2 options at QB.
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