USC offensive lineman DJ Wingfield files lawsuit against NCAA over eligibility issue
On Monday, it was reported that Wingfield has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA. The amount in the suit is reportedly $210,000, which is what USC had offered him to play the 2025 season.
"Wingfield's collegiate career began in 2019 at El Camino College, a junior college in Torrance," Ryan Kartje of The Los Angeles Times wrote. "He left El Camino during the 2020 season due to the pandemic, as Wingfield was tasked with taking care of his mother.
"He played at El Camino in 2021 before transferring to New Mexico in the spring of 2022. Before completing a single game with the Lobos, he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, ending his season. He returned to play in nine games in 2023 before entering the transfer portal.
"Wingfield transferred to Purdue where he earned a starting job in 2024, five years after he first started his college football career."
Wingfield's assumption that he would be able to play another year of college football in 2025 was presumably based on Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia's successful lawsuit against the NCAA last fall, in which a court ruled that years spent at the junior college level do not count towards a player's NCAA eligibility. USC cornerback DeCarlos Nicholson took advantage of the ruling to return to the Trojans in 2025. To date, however, Wingfield's eligibility waiver has yet to be granted.
"Wingfield is seeking to challenge the lawfulness of the NCAA's 'Five-Year Rule', which contends that players are eligible to play four seasons of competition across five years," Kartje wrote. "Both USC and Wingfield believed, according to the complaint, that his waiver would be approved, considering recent rulings in the cases of Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia and Rutgers' Jett Elad, each of whom won the right in court to play an additional season.
"But the waiver was denied, robbing Wingfield, he claims, of what could have been a 'once-in-a-lifetime' NIL payday as well as an opportunity to 'enhance his career and reputation' by playing at USC."
Losing a potential starter on the offensive line prior to the start of the season would be a brutal blow for the Trojans. USC will certainly be pulling hard for Wingfield in his legal fight with the NCAA.
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