There always seems to be confusion as to when a medical redshirt can be taken.
1. Can only be applied for after all other eligibility has been used.
2. In the season for which the medical redshirt is requested, the player:
(a) Must have played in 30% or less of games (rounded up)
(b) Must not have played in the second half of the season
Using our current 12-game season for example,
For requirement 2(a), 30% of 12 games is 3.6 games, which gets rounded up to four. So the player can participate in up to four games.
For requirement 2(b), the second half of the 12-game season starts at the seventh game, so he cannot participate in any games after the sixth game.
Say Johnny Utah takes a normal redshirt his freshman year, gets hurt in the sixth game of his redshirt-freshman year and that game was the fourth game in which he played and it was a 12-game season, and then plays in each game of his redshirt-sophomore, redshirt-junior, and fifth-year senior seasons. He has thus used up all his normal eligibility (five to play four). After his fifth-year senior season, he can request a medical reshirt based on injury he received during his redshirt-freshman year because in that year he played in only four games (meeting requirement 2(a)) and those four games were in the first half of the season (meeting requirement 2(b)).
1. Can only be applied for after all other eligibility has been used.
2. In the season for which the medical redshirt is requested, the player:
(a) Must have played in 30% or less of games (rounded up)
(b) Must not have played in the second half of the season
Using our current 12-game season for example,
For requirement 2(a), 30% of 12 games is 3.6 games, which gets rounded up to four. So the player can participate in up to four games.
For requirement 2(b), the second half of the 12-game season starts at the seventh game, so he cannot participate in any games after the sixth game.
Say Johnny Utah takes a normal redshirt his freshman year, gets hurt in the sixth game of his redshirt-freshman year and that game was the fourth game in which he played and it was a 12-game season, and then plays in each game of his redshirt-sophomore, redshirt-junior, and fifth-year senior seasons. He has thus used up all his normal eligibility (five to play four). After his fifth-year senior season, he can request a medical reshirt based on injury he received during his redshirt-freshman year because in that year he played in only four games (meeting requirement 2(a)) and those four games were in the first half of the season (meeting requirement 2(b)).