Brandon Wimbush cannot benefit from the NCAA’s new rule allowing a player to play four games without exhausting a year of eligibility for one simple reason. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish quarterback already used his redshirt year in 2016.
Wimbush, who started the first three games for the Irish this year, did not appear in the fourth game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. That prompted a few fans, familiar with the new redshirt rule, to speculate that Wimbush could play just one more game and still preserve a year of eligibility.