Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss is the talk of college football as he awaits a decision on his future. The Rebels quarterback sued the NCAA to seek an injunction that would allow him to return to Oxford next season after his waiver for an extra season was initially denied by the authorities last week.
Chambliss’s pivotal injunction hearing is set for Feb. 12 at the Lafayette County Chancery Court.
Trinidad Chambliss’s Eligibility Quest Takes New Twist
A new twist was added to the Chambliss eligibility saga on Wednesday when the Ole Miss quarterback was snubbed from the NFL Combine, which is set to be held in Indianapolis between Feb. 23 and March 2. 15 college football quarterbacks were invited to the showcase event.
In some quarters, Chambliss was mocked as a late second- or early third-round pick in the NFL Draft, should his eligibility quest not pan out. His snub from the combine gives the quarterback little wiggle room as he straddles a fine line between college football and the NFL.
As of right now Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss is not invited to the NFL Combine 👀 https://t.co/hCcFklsYQw pic.twitter.com/wGHYjPGnL5
— SleeperCFB (@SleeperCFB) February 11, 2026
In addition, alongside Chambliss, Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joey Aguilar, who is also seeking an injunction to play an extra season in college football, was also snubbed from the NFL Combine list.
During Tuesday’s segment of the “Always College Football” show, ESPN analyst Greg McElroy lauded Chambliss’s hotshot lawyer, Tom Mars, who has become renowned in college sports for representing student-athletes seeking extra eligibility.
“So what does Trinidad do?” McElroy said. “He continues with Tom Mars, and if you don’t know who Tom Mars is, he is the John Wick of college football attorneys. Like, if you have an eligibility issue, you call Tom Mars. Mars has filed a lawsuit that is just peak college football. He is actually citing a broadcast from the 2024 D2 championship game.
“During the game, the announcers, who were hired by the NCAA they explicitly referred to 2022 as Trinidad’s medical redshirt year. So you think about the irony there. The NCAA is arguing that he wasn’t medically redshirted while people that are calling the game were saying that he was, and it was on an NCAA-owned broadcast.”
New Ole Miss coach Pete Golding is anxious to have Chambliss back after a breakout season in Oxford, after replacing the injured Austin Simmons as the Rebels’ QB1, earning himself a PFSN College QB Impact score of 90.3.
Chambliss registered 3,937 passing yards, resulting in 22 touchdowns and three interceptions, while adding 527 rushing yards and eight touchdowns to distinguish himself as one of the best quarterbacks in college football last season.
