re: Who Redshirted from Last Year's class?

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All teams play a few guys early at the end of games that end up being red shirts. The strict rule is if you play a snap you have played that year, but exceptions are made on injuries. Clearly many of these players weren't injured and still get a red shirt. If the teams aren't abusing the rule, the red shirt is granted. At least that is my understanding.

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You do in fact lose the "general" or "academic" redshirt with participation in a single down. The medical redshirt can be applied until the player participates in 20% of the games, at which point no redshirt is applicable. So generally speaking, as others stated accurately, a kid can play in 2 games of the 12 game schedule and still claim the medical redshirt. This is a common practice and yes, it's normally a bending of the rules since most of the time, the kid isn't injured badly enough to miss the subsequent games. I have read somewhere that the NCAA redshirt regulations are due to change in 2016, but not sure to what extent.