{"id":54887,"date":"2025-07-10T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54887\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:24:19","slug":"report-usc-ol-dj-wingfield-hires-attorney-in-ncaa-eligibility-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54887\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: USC OL DJ Wingfield hires attorney in NCAA eligibility battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/24655822.jpg\"  alt=\"Syndication: Journal-Courier\" class=\"w-full\"\/>Purdue Boilermakers offensive lineman DJ Wingfield (55) helps up Purdue Boilermakers quarterback Hudson Card (1) Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, during the NCAA football game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Ind. Northwestern Wildcats won 26-20.   <\/p>\n<p>Southern California offensive lineman DJ Wingfield is hiring an attorney to contest his eligibility for the 2025 season, On3 reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Wingfield transferred from Purdue to USC after the 2024 season, believing he could play one more season due to an NCAA waiver for players with at least one season at a non-NCAA program. He has been unable to secure that waiver, per the report.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4, 320-pound lineman began his career at El Camino Junior College, playing 22 games there from 2020-21  before competing at New Mexico (2022-23) and Purdue. His 2022 campaign ended with an injury in the season opener. He started all 12 games at right guard for the Boilermakers.<\/p>\n<p>Wingfield is hiring attorney Darren Heitner and is expected to file a lawsuit for an injunction that would allow him to play this fall, per On3.<\/p>\n<p>Wingfield originally declared for the 2025 NFL Draft before entering the portal and committing to the Trojans in January.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Purdue Boilermakers offensive lineman DJ Wingfield (55) helps up Purdue Boilermakers quarterback Hudson Card (1) Saturday, Nov. 2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-54887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114830578095924902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}