Mississippi State WR stepping away to redshirt, per report
Mississippi State WR Creed Whittemore will not play the rest of the season and take a redshirt, according to a report from Maroon and White Daily.
Whittemore has played in all 4 games of the 2024 season. Four regular-season games is the maximum a player can play and still redshirt.
SOURCE: Mississippi State sophomore WR Creed Whittemore plans to redshirt 2024 season https://t.co/AjBNuZbhFA pic.twitter.com/O4zQkaJfml
— Robbie Faulk (@robbiefaulkOn3) September 26, 2024
Whittemore was listed as out on Wednesday’s official availability report
Creed Whittemore is out. Isaac Smith is probable pic.twitter.com/pR5kseBUlH
— Sam Sklar (@sklarsam_) September 26, 2024
A true sophomore, Whittemore has 4 catches for 65 yards on the season. He also logged a 41-yard rushing touchdown.
Whittemore is coming a 2-catch, 36-yard performance against Florida, a program he knows well. A Gainesville, Florida native, Whittemore was committed to UF, where his brother Trent Whittemore played for 4 seasons (2019-22).
In October 2022, Creed Whittemore decommitted from Florida and pledged to Mississippi State to play for Mike Leach, who tragically passed in December of that year. Trent left the UF football team before the end of the season to pursue a transfer. Trent transferred to UCF and is still a member of the Knights.
Ahead of the Florida-Mississippi State game, UF coach Billy Napier was complimentary of Creed and the Whittemore family.
Napier says he has lot of respect for MSU WR Creed Whittemore and his family, former #Gator commit from Buchholz High in Gainesville, said he is a matchup concern.
— KevinBrockwayGators (@KevinBrockwayG1) September 18, 2024
The transfer portal’s fall window is scheduled for Dec. 9 to Jan. 7. We’ll see if Whittemore seeks a new home. He has 15 catches for 167 yards in his college career.
I hope Ol Miss tells this “team player” to pack his shht and get the hail out, the free room and board ends right now. Git!
I agree Leg. This has to stop being a one way street. Consequences must be put back in place. Any player that just decides they are done, during the season, should be told that they can leave but the free stuff has ended. They owe the portion of their school, books, food, housing, and everything else they were getting under their scholarship and/or NIL agreement, from that point forward.
When these athletes make decisions like this where their only agenda is themselves, this should result in automatic dismissal and cancellation of the benefits a scholarship is providing. Commitment and obligation go both ways but these entitled athletes don’t see it that way. Enoough already.
Certainly Ms St has a deserving walk-on kid who is paying his own way and giving his all for love of the game, use the scholarship to award his commitment to the “team”. This playing 4 games and quitting shhht has to go! Not even the NFL allows that gar bage…as a starter, the only exception to preserving his redshirt should be injury or illness. Anyway, thanks for letting me rant. I’ll step off of the soapbox now. This kid sux.
A scholarship can be taken away at the end of any semester. It is done all the time. At every school. They are also reduced. The ability to more openly transfer is what stopped it being a one way street.
The fact you don’t even know what school is involved covers everything
Tampering?
I don’t blame him. Everytime he’s in the game he’s electric but we never see him. I don’t understand why he doesn’t get utilized more. I imagine he’s transferring and from here it looks like it might be a good call. By the way, my first time back her in weeks, this site blows
He’ll be somewhere else next year..sure hate that.
Yeah, I hate it too but I can’t blame the kid.
This is the future of NIL football unless changes are made. I am in favor of players getting paid but it needs to be contractual and transparent with the schools directly involved. Any promised money needs to be guaranteed to the player but there has to be an agreement that the player will play all season unless injured (or structure the payments based on games played with exceptions for injuries). Right now the NIL landscape is the wild wild west and lots of bad things are happening. I don’t blame the kids for wanting to find the best route to the NFL in the current chaotic college football world.