Medical Redshirts

[CHIEFxxROCKEM]

This shouldn't be hard to put in the game

[goh]

I'm not even sure what the point of regular redshirts are. What are the medical ones for?

[canes21]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

I'm not even sure what the point of regular redshirts are. What are the medical ones for?

A regular redshirt can be used in real life to get a freshman up to size, or to help them learn the scheme, or to get their skills up to par, or when you have a Fr. QB, but also 3 other older QB's and you want that Fr. to get the most possible years under his belt as the starter.

A medical redshirt is used when a player is injured and misses something like 90%(don't know exact number) of the season. You use it so a player doesn't lose a year of eligibility due to injury.

[James1333]

According to the NCAA:

Involves the eligibility of a player who loses the majority of a season to injury. Popularly known as a medical redshirt, a hardship waiver may be granted an athlete who appears in fewer than 30% of his or her team's competitions (with none coming after the midway point of the season), then suffers a season-ending injury. A player who is granted such a waiver is treated for the purposes of their eligibility as though he or she had not competed in that season.