Does this quote from before his first appeal tell us that his first RS year was not due to injury?
"That's the disappointing thing. That redshirt year, it wasn't like I went into coach (Jim) Grobe's office and said, 'Hey coach, I want to sit out this year. I don't want to play.' It was a thing where I was a freshman and I wanted to play ? I never wanted to sit out ? and I thought I could help the team out. But I wasn't playing, and it was out of my control."