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NCAA Should Grant Martell’s Waiver Application

Two programs that made the biggest splashes through the transfer portal this offseason have both been hopeful of their transferee quarterbacks being under center this fall.

From the you-don’t-say department, fortune hath smiled upon the Buckeyes, and thy name is the NCAA.

The NCAA granted the waiver of former Georgia quarterback Justin Fields on Friday, who will be eligible to play this fall. The crux of Fields’ argument for a waiver was supposedly being the target of a racial slur allegedly yelled by a now-former UGA baseball player during a game last season, which was picked up by some fans and made its way to Fields.