{"id":681899,"date":"2026-01-16T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:06:15","slug":"judge-denies-preliminary-injunction-in-ncaa-redshirt-rule-antitrust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681899\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies preliminary injunction in NCAA redshirt rule antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">A federal judge on Thursday \u201cdenied a request\u201d for a preliminary injunction by five college football players \u201cseeking to play a fifth season this fall.\u201d U.S. District Judge William Campbell wrote that the players \u201cdid not make the case that they likely would succeed on their claim that the NCAA violates U.S. antitrust laws\u201d with its redshirt rule that restricts athletes to four seasons over five years. All five players &#8212; who are \u201cpart of a\u202flawsuit seeking class-action status\u201d &#8212; have \u201ccompeted four seasons in four years without taking a redshirt year.\u201d The case \u201cincludes seven other named plaintiffs and potentially thousands of current and former NCAA football, baseball and tennis players\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ncaa-redshirt-rule-lawsuit-75adad815cd9777e64bcab857ae163fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP, 1\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">Among the reasons given for denying the injunction was that \u201cdue to the new roster and revenue sharing limits established in the House settlement, granting a wider number of players eligibility would not increase overall opportunities or compensation for athletes as a whole, as it would just change which athletes received that compensation\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/college\/vanderbilt\/2026\/01\/15\/langston-patterson-vanderbilt-football-ncaa-lawsuit-redshirt\/88204557007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nashville TENNESSEAN, 1\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge on Thursday \u201cdenied a request\u201d for a preliminary injunction by five college football players \u201cseeking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,7,12202,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-681899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-legal","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115905166283772658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}