NFL Bars Two Players From Signing With Any Team After LSU Return Attempt
The NFL told all 32 teams this week that two players, Zxavian Harris and Dae'Quan Wright, are barred from signing with any club for the rest of this season after they tried to return to LSU to play college football again. The league's memo makes both players ineligible to join an NFL roster in 2026, closing off their path back to professional football after their attempt to re-enter the college ranks fell through.
The move is the latest flashpoint in a broader fight over whether athletes who already turned pro, or exhausted their college eligibility, can go back to school for another season. Courts have split on the question this year: an appeals court recently paused a plan that would have let players from the disrupted Class of 2022 claim a fifth year of eligibility, and other challenges to NCAA eligibility rules are still working through state courts. Harris and Wright's attempt to join LSU's roster ran into that same legal uncertainty, and the NFL's response leaves them without a team in either league this season.
What supporters say:
The NFL argues players shouldn't be able to test the college ranks again once they've turned pro, since letting them shuttle back and forth undermines roster planning and eligibility rules for everyone else.
A firm, leaguewide ban removes any incentive for other players to try the same maneuver, supporters say, keeping the line between college and professional status clear.
What critics say:
Critics argue the punishment is disproportionate, since it leaves Harris and Wright without a team in either league this season over what amounts to an eligibility technicality.
Others say the chaos stems from the NCAA's own inconsistent eligibility rulings, not from anything the players did wrong, and they shouldn't be the ones penalized for the confusion.
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