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The NCAA will grant any University of Virginia football player whose college eligibility expired this past season an extra year to play, a UVA spokesperson confirmed to The Athletic.
UVA initiated and submitted the request, athletic director Carla Williams told The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The decision comes following a shooting in Charlottesville last month that left three UVA football players dead. Receivers Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler and linebacker D’Sean Perry were shot and killed, allegedly by a former UVA walk-on football player, after returning from a field trip in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13.
The Cavaliers canceled their home finale with Coastal Carolina and their season finale against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, finishing their season with a 3-7 record. The school instead held a memorial service on the day of its scheduled game against Coastal Carolina to honor the three slain players.
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