{"id":833655,"date":"2026-03-25T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/833655\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:53:13","slug":"oklahomas-owen-heinecke-sues-ncaa-for-another-year-of-eligibility-as-key-april-dates-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/833655\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma\u2019s Owen Heinecke sues NCAA for another year of eligibility as key April dates loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JVZCSYSIYNCMBANM3QL3PIFJGQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Oklahoma linebacker Owen Heinecke is suing the NCAA for an additional year of eligibility, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TUIYX5RW3RHMNMXQCFHFWJ7OH4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Heinecke played briefly in three games of lacrosse at Ohio State in February 2022, costing him a year of eligibility. He transferred to play football at Oklahoma, then sat out a year because of injury. He was mostly a special teams player in 2023 and 2024 before breaking out last season with 74 tackles, including 12 for loss, and three sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma linebacker Owen Heinecke is suing the NCAA for an additional year of eligibility, according to court documents.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[111754,111752,331,111755,9263,37948,339,27027,114977,7,11108,49,48,111753,9],"class_list":["post-833655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-2026-college-football","tag-cfb-news","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-latest-news","tag-college-football-rankings","tag-college-football-scores","tag-college-sports","tag-college-football-news","tag-fbc-t25-oklahoma-heinecke","tag-football","tag-lacrosse","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaa-football-news","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116292039990592601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833655","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=833655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}