{"id":14552,"date":"2024-02-19T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=14552"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:28:02","slug":"tom-izzo-plans-on-pursuing-a-redshirt-for-jeremy-fears-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=14552","title":{"rendered":"Tom Izzo plans on pursuing a redshirt for Jeremy Fears Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tom Izzo spoke to the media on Monday about some of his freshmen and he admitted he&#8217;ll be pursuing a redshirt for Jeremy Fears.<\/h2>\n<p>Jeremy Fears is someone that has been on everyone\u2019s mind a lot since the incident from December. While he was home for the holidays, <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/jeremy-fears-suffers-non-life-threatening-injury-being-shot\/\">Fears was shot in his leg<\/a>, thankfully not suffering any life threatening injuries. However, he has been on the sideline all season after the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, Tom Izzo provided an update on Fears and the expectations for him going forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Izzo says Jeremy Fears Jr. has made &quot;unbelievable progress&quot; in recovery. &quot;He is a tremendously quick healer. .. Does that mean he&#39;s gonna play this year? No.&quot; But feels Fears will have spring\/summer to improve between freshman\/sophomore seasons. Going to petition for a redshirt.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1759630225040953475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Tom Izzo comments on Fears\u2019 recovery<\/h3>\n<p>Izzo has held back on giving out a lot of information about Fears\u2019 recovery in the past, and rightfully so, but that wasn\u2019t the case this time. He shared that Jeremy has made \u201cunbelievable progress\u201d and that \u201che is a tremendously quick healer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Izzo then continued to discuss if he has a chance at returning to the court this year, saying \u201cDoes that mean he&#8217;s gonna play this year? No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think this is what most of us expected, and probably is the right choice. As much as I would have loved to have Fears back and think he would help the team out a lot, I think easing him back in is the right choice. The last thing you want to do is bring him back too soon and impact his overall health and future playing ability even more.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Izzo also loves that Fears will have the spring and summer to continue to heal. This way he\u2019ll hopefully be 100 percent by the time next season begins.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential for a redshirt season<\/h3>\n<p>Tom Izzo also shared that Jeremy will apply for a medical redshirt this season as well. Basketball is a little different from football in that you can\u2019t even play in one game to get a redshirt. That\u2019s what fellow freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-gehrig-normand-plans-to-redshirt\/\">Gehrig Normand is currently doing this season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the NCAA can give out a medical redshirt under certain circumstances. There\u2019s no telling what the NCAA will decide to do, but I believe it would be more than fair for Fears to be granted this redshirt. That would mean this season wouldn\u2019t count against his eligibility and he could stay in East Lansing for four more years if he wants to.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what happens, I\u2019m just happy to hear his recovery is progressing well. Incidents like what Fears went through make it feel like sports don\u2019t matter, all that ever mattered is his health. Thankfully that\u2019s going well, so we can look to the future and seeing him back on the court next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think this would be a no-brainer for the NCAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[245,190,189,504,211],"class_list":["post-14552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-jeremy-fears","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}