Virginia quarterback Chandler Morris has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA seeking a seventh year of eligibility, his agent Simon Pflum told ESPN on Tuesday. The 25-year-old quarterback led the Cavaliers to an 11-win season and ACC championship game appearance in 2025, throwing for 3,245 total yards and 21 touchdowns.

Morris and his attorneys filed in Charlottesville Circuit Court seeking a preliminary injunction after the NCAA denied his medical redshirt waiver and appeal in January. The lawsuit contends that Morris' 26 snaps in three games during the 2022 season at TCU were part of a medically prescribed mental health treatment plan following a knee injury that forced him to lose his starting job to Max Duggan.

Morris, the son of Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris, began his career at Oklahoma in 2020 and had stints at TCU and North Texas before transferring to Virginia. Virginia signed two experienced transfer quarterbacks, Missouri's Beau Pribula and Pitt's Eli Holstein, in January after Morris' waiver request was denied. The case comes weeks after Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss was granted an injunction for a sixth year of eligibility by a state court judge.