A group of college athletes, led by Vanderbilt linebacker Langston Patterson, have filed a class action lawsuit against the NCAA over the organization's redshirt rules, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
The goal of the class action lawsuit is to enact a rule change to NCAA eligibility for redshirted players. The lawsuit calls for the NCAA to enact a "five-for-five" rule, which means that college athletes would have five seasons of eligibility over a five-year period. The current rules allow for five seasons of eligibility, but student-athletes can only participate in four of them with one additional year of being redshirted.
