Does anyone know if a player can red shirt if he played in one or two games? The NCAA site says that a player can't red shirt if he plays. Yet I hear conflicting reports. I have heard of injured players who were able to red shirt.
the way that you can medical redshirt is if you are approved by the ncaa for an injury causing you to redshirt. i think but am not sure about how many games you can play and still be eligible but i think it is if you play in less than 25 percent of the season. hopefully that will help you
If you've only played in 1-2 games, you should be OK for a medical redshirt. However, those games need to be at the beginning of the season. If you sat most of the year then played a couple of games late in the year then got hurt, you wouldn't get a redshirt. I don't know the exact number of games you can play and still be eligible for a medical redshirt but I know that at Maryland, Jason Arnold and AJ Herrera played four games and Scott Buete in three for the Terps in 2000 and all three got medical redshirts.
There's a cut-off date in early October. If you play past that date--you've used a year of eligibility. In reality there is no "red shirt" rule. You are allowed five years to play four. If you play one minute it counts as a year--unless you are injured early in the season (the one exception). Sometimes pregnancy can be used for hardship reasons to get another year of eligibility--think that excuse could be used by the men?