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🏈 An inactive athlete 🏈 To delay playing 🟥 A volunteer soldier
to redshirt

to redshirt

4 7.7
To make an athlete sit out a season to gain an extra year of play
  • verb
  • /ˈrɛdʃɜrt/
  • US
translation icon : dejar sin competir una temporada
  • Barring an unforeseen rash of injuries, Lynch will redshirt this season.
  • redshirt a season
  • redshirt freshman
  • redshirted last year

Examples

  • Coming back, I probably should have redshirted.

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  • Coach Fran McCaffery said it is likely that Stokes will redshirt this season and called him a "pleasant surprise."

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  • But he cannot redshirt again.

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  • Consequently, every player not scheduled to redshirt has played this season.

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  • Look for Peters to redshirt this year.

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  • With those rumors that Johnson was going to redshirt, the Wildcats were planning for the future.

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  • Harrow and this team might actually be better off if he has mono to redshirt.

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  • Typically, 3-star recruits have to redshirt to gain size and strength; that's why they are rated as 3 stars.

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  • Redshirted freshmen Mike Turner and Tre Demps should help make this squad one of Carmody's deepest.

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  • The coaching staff decided to redshirt him this year so he could recover from his injury.

Synonyms

to warm the bench
vsto redshirt
  • Informal
1 7.0

A player who sits on the side and does not play in games

delays participation for a season to extend future eligibility

Surface Forms

redshirt infinitive
redshirted past
redshirted past participle
redshirting present participle
redshirts third person singular

Etymology

Redshirt as a verb comes from the sports noun: to redshirt a player is to have them 'sit out' a season so they keep an extra year of college eligibility and have more time to develop.