Chris Evans won’t be suiting up for the Wolverines this upcoming season, but could return in 2020 after a redshirt year, according to Jim Harbaugh:
Michigan running back Chris Evans, suspended earlier in the year by the university because of an academic issue, hasn’t been a member of the football team since then and will not be with the Wolverines this fall.
Evans had appealed the decision to the university hoping to have it cut from one year to a half year, which would allow him to play football this fall, but that hasn’t happened.
“Chris Evans is suspended for the year,” Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said Sunday after speaking at the Best of the Midwest football camp at Grand Valley State.
The decision was made by the university, not the football program.
Harbaugh had said at the start of spring practice there was a chance Evans could work his way back. Evans, no longer enrolled at Michigan and, obviously, no longer on a football scholarship, told The News in March the issue was “an academic mistake. Not my grades. I’m on pace to graduate.”
