By Thomas Nash, of Tulane Sports Law
On April 2, 2026, the Charlottesville Circuit Court in Virginia denied the injunction request for Virginia Cavaliers quarterback Chandler Morris’s seventh year of college football eligibility. This is the result of Morris’s lawsuit, initially filed on February 24, 2026, seeking an extra year of college eligibility, joining fellow NCAA quarterbacks Trinidad Chambliss and Joey Aguilar this year in the endeavor.
In 2020, Morris began his collegiate career at the University of Oklahoma. He transferred to Texas Christian University in 2021 as a starter, but was injured at the start of the season and totaled only twenty-six snaps as a backup to Max Duggan in three games. While he had sought a medical redshirt for the season, the NCAA counted it as a full year of eligibility because of his participation in three games and his redshirt status in 2021. He entered the transfer portal in December of 2023 and played for a year at North Texas before transferring to Virginia ahead of the 2025 season. Morris sought a seventh year of eligibility with his lawsuit in February, with his attorneys claiming that his limited snaps at TCU were a part of a medically prescribed treatment plan for mental health.
The NCAA denied his medical redshirt waiver and appeal in January of this year, and the Charlottesville Circuit Court now denies his injunction request for an extra year under center for the Cavaliers. This decision comes only weeks after fellow NCAA quarterback Trinidad Chambliss was granted an injunction for his extra year of eligibility after the NCAA denied him a sixth year of eligibility and a medical redshirt waiver.
“The NCAA is pleased by the court’s decision today, which protects the integrity of collegiate competition,” said the NCAA in a statement after the decision. Representing Morris are JP Kernisan and Ben O’Neil of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Washington, D.C., who have yet to publicly comment at this time.
