Overview
- A Charlottesville Circuit Court judge denied Morris a preliminary injunction Thursday, leaving the 25-year-old quarterback without a path to play in 2026.
- Virginia will now stage a quarterback competition between transfers Beau Pribula from Missouri and Eli Holstein from Pitt.
- UVA brought in Pribula and Holstein over the winter to hedge against an adverse ruling on Morris’s seventh-season bid.
- Morris argued his 2022 knee injury at TCU and related mental-health treatment justified a waiver, but the NCAA said records did not show an incapacitating condition or care from a licensed psychologist.
- The decision fits a split legal landscape in eligibility suits, with Tennessee’s Joey Aguilar losing his case and Ole Miss’ Trinidad Chambliss cleared to play after the NCAA’s appeal failed in Mississippi.