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West Virginia district court Judge John Preston Bailey ruled in favor of WVU players pass rusher Jimmori Robinson, wide receiver Jeffery Weimer, running back Tye Edwards and safety Justin Harrington, granting an injunction against the NCAA, making the four players eligible to play this fall. All four sued earlier this summer against the NCAA when they were denied to play this fall.

The news, first reported by Sam C. Ehrlich, comes just over a day after Robinson’s hearing, where he was stated to be ineligible by an NCAA attorney. Robinson was deemed ineligible after not completing coursework at UTSA.

It was a confusing court hearing on Tuesday, where the NCAA also said WVU was way over the 105 roster limit, which wouldn’t let the four play, too, and kept referring to WVU, while the players were suing and not the university.

Robinson was one of the biggest additions from the portal. He had the eighth-most sacks per game last season in college football, posting 10.5 sacks, 17 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles and two pass breakups. With Robinson’s return, bandits coach Jeff Casteel will have six players in his room, and could be closer to Zac Alley’s goal of bringing a dominant defensive front back to WVU.

Weimer had 101 grabs for 1,294 yards and seven touchdowns last year at Idaho State. He has also made a big impact in the short time he’s been at unsupervised summer workouts. Receiver Jaden Bray had nothing but positive things to say about working out with him this summer.

“Jeff Weimer, that’s the one of the most competitive dudes I ever met in my life,” Bray said. “He’s just pushing everybody in that room.”

Edwards’ return beefs up the running back room, which now has eight backs. The running back room went from scarce to one of the deeper rooms on the team in just a couple of weeks. Edwards rushed for 1,047 yards on 157 attempts and six scores for Northern Iowa. He’s an experienced back that shouldn’t take too long to get action this fall, especially since SMU transfer back Jaylan Knighton wasn’t so fortunate and wasn’t granted extra eligibility.

Harrington has played all over the place, and most recently transferred from Washington. He played eight games last year, tallying three tackles. Harrington also played for Brent Venables at Oklahoma, where he had an interception before suffering a season-ending injury.

All four players weren’t allowed to attend any meetings or fall camp since their waivers were denied, so it’ll take some time getting used to playing. With just under 10 days from the first game, the four probably will gradually work in, but all four could make immediate impacts.

Rich Rodriguez talked about how transfers, who were late adds, were going to be worked in slowly, and the same could apply to these four. All four have been working outside of WVU, but it’s unknown if they are in game-ready shape yet. There’ll be more information about this situation when Rodriguez talks to the media on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

“We have to make sure that we’re not doing too much too soon,” Rodriguez said.