His Eligibility:
I just want to clarify some misconceptions Pitt fans may have regarding our star running back James Conner’s eligibility if he sits out the rest of the year due to his knee injury and subsequent surgery. We have been reading comment questions about whether or not James Conner can use this season as an automatic “injury redshirt“. Here are a few things to understand as this term is misleading.
There really is no such thing as a ‘injury redshirt” per se… there are just regular redshirt seasons with a possible medical waiver at the end of his four years – once that is granted that additional year is called a “Medical Waiver year”.