Trinidad Chambliss's legal team was waiting in the shadows for the perfect opportunity. Now they have it.
After the NCAA filed its documents for Chambliss's lawsuit against them with some serious statements against the QB, Chambliss's lawyers fired back at them with equally bold statements.
In their argument, the NCAA's Oxford-native lawyer argued that: "Chambliss will not suffer irreparable harm without an injunction."
Trinidad Chambliss's counterattack
ESPN's Pete Thamel reports how Chambliss's documents "claim that Chambliss’s case was 'neither manufactured nor contrived'. It stresses that they’ll be no grand harm to the college sports industry if Chambliss gets a sixth year."
"The NCAA's argument that the injunctive relief in this case would be a sweeping change that will 'upend the Division I eligibility rules that apply across sports to over 180,000 Division I student-athletes' is overstated," Chambliss legal documents state.
"The NCAA's argument that preliminary injunctive relief... will 'suspend longstanding eligibility rules that apply to over 500,000 student-athletes in multiple sports' is misguided and fails to address the essence of the harm at issue," the document further reads.
The original reason for the NCAA denying Chambliss his eligibility waiver was not providing proper medical documents from his time at Ferris State in 2022.
However, the QB's legal team has made a solid case for him documenting the same.
All of it depends on which side the judge at the Calhoun County Courthouse believes in more. With the court date set to Feb. 12, all eyes are on the verdict that comes out of it.
"We're not challenging the legality of any NCAA rules," Tom Mars told ESPN when they filed the lawsuit, adding that Ole Miss officials had provided 91 pages of medical records to the NCAA.
It will either give college football its top returning QB of the 2026 season, or it will give the NFL scouts one of the top QBs for the 2026 NFL Draft.