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Red-Shirting Can Extend Red Athletes’ Playing Time

Another season of eligibility allows some athletes more academic opportunites

October 26, 2007 - 12:00am
By Keenan Weatherford

Recently disgraced track star Marion Jones did it. So did struggling NFL quarterbacks Eli Manning and Matt Leinart. Of course they’re not the only sports superstars who chose to red-shirt in college.

Many elite professional athletes chose to “red-shirt” in order to save their four years of NCAA athletic eligibility. Leinart, the currently-injured quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, took only one 2-credit class during his fifth year at the University of Southern California: ballroom dancing. Yet he was able to continue competing in collegiate athletics and led the Trojans to the BCS title game where they fell to the Texas Longhorns.