(09-19-2014 01:29 PM)BleedingPurple Wrote: Is that not what he is doing now, waiting on an injury? Maybe he has redshirted, does anyone know? Even so, that could be pulled with an injury.
Birdsong has to redshirt this year. He couldn't go in even if Rakeem Cato, Gunner Holcombe (Back up) and Cole Garvin (True Freshman) was to go down. Going from IA to IAA, you can play imed. going from IAA to IA requires a redshirt and since Birdsong played as a True Freshman and Soph. he had a redshirt and will not lose eligibility.
As long as Rakeem Cato is healthy he isn't coming out unless we have a blowout in hand.
Cato is chasing Marshall records right now and should be the leader of them all at the end of the season:
Chad Pennington 13,445 passing yards, 115 passing TDs
Byron Leftwich 11,906 passing yards, 89 passing TDs (2 years)
Rakeem Cato 11,129 passing yards, 100 TDs
Cato's numbers this year: 52 for 90, 953 yards and 9 TDs.
That's an avg of 18.3 yards per completion.