CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – University of Virginia quarterback Chandler Morris and his father, Clemson’s offensive coordinator, will testify Thursday in Morris’s lawsuit against the NCAA seeking to gain one extra year of eligibility.

According to Charlottesville Circuit Court records, Morris’s legal team intends to call him, his father, and a mental health professional who worked with Morris as witnesses Thursday.

Morris is asking the court to grant him a preliminary injunction after the NCAA denied him a waiver to play college football in the 2026 season.

An injunction, if granted, would allow him to rejoin the UVA program immediately, though a source said his participation would be limited by offseason non-throwing shoulder surgery.

The judge could make his ruling Thursday, or take the evidence under advisement and rule at a later date.

The NCAA has ruled Morris, who has been in college since 2020, is out of eligibility. It denied his waiver request.

In his filing, Morris argues that the NCAA is “ignoring its own Constitution and Bylaws’ emphasis on mental health,” by ruling that Morris’s mental health struggles were not adequate to constitute a “missed participation opportunity.”

“By treating minimal therapeutic engagement as disqualifying ‘participation within the student-athlete’s control’ rather than as the mental health circumstance contemplated by NCAA (bylaws) the NCAA exercised its discretion in a manner that punished medically appropriate care,” Morris’s suit states.

The NCAA filed a 572-page response to Morris’s lawsuit, but court documents indicate it plans to call no witnesses Thursday, according to court documents.

Morris spent one season at Oklahoma, playing in five games. He transferred to TCU, where he spent 2021-23.

He played at North Texas in 2024, then at UVA in 2025, leading the Cavaliers to an 11-4 record and a spot in the ACC championship game.

At issue is his 2022 season, when Morris played in four games, including an appearance in the NCAA championship game.

Morris contends the NCAA should grant him a medical waiver for that season – despite hitting the threshold for games played – because he was dealing with mental health issues.

Morris’s lawyers will call Brian Cain, a mental performance consultant in Arizona, to testify virtually Thursday, because Cain is unavailable to appear in person due to his work with a Major League Baseball team, according to the court documents.

They also have an affidavit from Morris’s family doctor outlining Morris’s declining mental health following an injury

A 79-page request for relief that UVA filed to the NCAA on Dec. 29, 2025, will also be entered into evidence in support of Morris’s argument.

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips also filed an affidavit in support of the NCAA.