Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss sues NCAA to get sixth season of eligibility

Ole Miss backmost Trinidad Chambliss has sued the NCAA aft being denied a sixth twelvemonth of eligibility. 

Chambliss' lawyers are asking a Mississippi justice for a preliminary injunction that would let him to play 1 much collegiate season, according to aggregate reports. 

The NCAA formally rejected his petition for a sixth twelvemonth of eligibility Jan. 9 owed to him and his squad not being capable to supply grounds helium was suffering from an "incapacitating wounded oregon illness" erstwhile helium did not play for Division II Ferris State successful 2022 owed to evident respiratory issues.

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Mississippi Rebels backmost Trinidad Chambliss warms up earlier a crippled against the Mississippi State Bulldogs astatine Davis Wade Stadium astatine Scott Field Nov. 28, 2025. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)

"In November, Ole Miss filed a waiver petition for shot student-athlete Trinidad Chambliss, seeking to widen his five-year Division I eligibility clock, citing an incapacitating unwellness oregon injury. Approval requires schools to taxable aesculapian documentation provided by a treating doc astatine the clip of a student’s incapacitating wounded oregon illness, which was not provided," the connection says.

"The documents provided by Ole Miss and the student’s anterior schoolhouse see a physician’s enactment from a December 2022 visit, which stated the student-athlete was ‘doing precise well’ since helium was seen successful August 2022. 

"Additionally, the student-athlete’s anterior schoolhouse indicated it had nary documentation connected aesculapian treatment, wounded reports oregon aesculapian conditions involving the student-athlete during that clip framework and cited "developmental needs and our team’s competitory circumstances" arsenic its crushed the student-athlete did not play successful the 2022-23 season. The waiver petition was denied."

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Mississippi Rebels moving backmost Kewan Lacy (5) celebrates with backmost Trinidad Chambliss (6) and wide receiver Deuce Alexander (11) aft scoring a touchdown against the Mississippi State Bulldogs successful the archetypal fractional astatine Davis Wade Stadium astatine Scott Field Nov. 28, 2025. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)

Ole Miss diversion manager Keith Carter said the schoolhouse would entreaty the ruling.

"We are disappointed with today's announcement by the NCAA and program to entreaty the determination to the Committee level," Carter said successful a societal media post, successful which helium included the emblem of Trinidad and Tobago. "Additionally, we volition proceed to enactment successful conjunction with Trinidad's representatives successful different avenues of support."

Chambliss' lawyer besides released a connection that time suggesting litigation could beryllium coming.

"I recognize that Ole Miss volition record an entreaty with the NCAA. However, there’s present an accidental to determination this lawsuit to a level playing tract wherever Trinidad’s rights volition beryllium determined by the Mississippi judiciary alternatively of immoderate bureaucrats successful Indianapolis who couldn’t attraction little astir the instrumentality oregon doing the close thing," Tom Mars said. 

"Whether to prosecute that people of enactment is simply a determination lone Trinidad and his parents tin make."

Chambliss and his ineligible squad volition spell to tribunal successful an effort to support him connected the tract for the 2026 season.

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Trinidad Chambliss of the Ole Miss Rebels celebrates a touchdown against the Miami Hurricanes successful the 2nd 4th during a 2025 College Football Playoff semifinal astatine the VRBO Fiesta Bowl astatine State Farm Stadium Jan. 8, 2026, successful Glendale, Ariz. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

The NCAA referred to its Jan. 9 connection erstwhile contacted for a effect to the suit by Fox News Digital.

Ole Miss came wrong a 4th of advancing to the NCAA semifinal, losing a 31-27 thriller to Miami successful the Fiesta Bowl Jan. 8. 

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