{"id":774486,"date":"2026-07-20T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:16:34","slug":"steve-sarkisian-texas-are-monitoring-cole-hutsons-efforts-seeking-a-fifth-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774486\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian, Texas are “monitoring” Cole Hutson’s efforts seeking a fifth year"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, former Texas offensive lineman Cole Hutson<\/a> filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court<\/a> against the NCAA seeking a fifth year of eligibility. The NCAA, which recently implemented a five to play five eligibility system, extended the opportunity to play five years to those in the high school class of 2023 and younger. <\/p>\n

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Hutson was a member of the high school class of 2022 and played in 48 games across four seasons with the Longhorns, exhausting his eligibility. Hutson went undrafted but took part in minicamp tryouts with the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns before filing suit on Friday.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian<\/a> was asked about Hutson\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Cole\u2019s situation, we\u2019re monitoring it,\u201d Sarkisian said Sunday at the Texas High School Coaches Association\u2019s coaching school. \u201cI don\u2019t know where it\u2019s going to go. We\u2019ve all seen, over the past few years, there\u2019s been a lot of lawsuits that have been filed piggybacking off of other lawsuits, so on and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hutson\u2019s complaint seeks injunctive relief after the NCAA\u2019s \u201crecent rule change allowing football players graduating high school after 2022 to compete in five seasons of competition without needing to redshirt.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, the complaint reads that Texas \u201chas a roster position on the football team for the upcoming season waiting for Cole Hutson, but he will be prohibited from filling that position unless he can obtain immediate emergency injunctive relief allowing him to sign a scholarship as well as NIL agreements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCole is a guy with a lot of experience,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cHe\u2019s played a lot of football for us. He\u2019s a guy that unfortunately didn\u2019t get drafted, so he puts himself in a bit of a different situation than maybe most guys that got done playing their fourth year in college. We\u2019ll see what that looks like and see where that goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hutson played in 10 games in 2025 and has 23 starts in his Texas career. He was listed as having earned an undergraduate degree in management and in pursuit of a master\u2019s degree in sport management on the 2025 roster.<\/p>\n

Hutson is looking to join fellow 2022 classmate Connor Robertson<\/a> on the 2026 roster. Robertson redshirted in 2022 and is listed as a senior on the 2026 roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, former Texas offensive lineman Cole Hutson filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[127997,399,398,396,397,4504,99],"class_list":["post-774486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-cole-hutson-22-frisco","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-regwall","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}