Hey Poison and what you said about Quincy too, dead on. Definately, if he had a future he wouldn't have been redshirted. They say medical redshirt but it's common knowledge he wasn't going to play. That's the real reason.
I think it could have been a little of both.
It might have taken him 2-3 months to come back, but
he probably could have ( I'm just guessing.)
But redshirting him gave the team 1 more experienced (non frosh) in Sept 2011