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Pennsylvania QB ruled ineligible for 2025 season

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(Brady Wagner/@bwagzz5_ on Instagram)

Brady Wagner will watch his junior season of football from the sidelines after the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) ruled him ineligible. The Pittsburgh quarterback drew the PIAA’s ire this offseason after he transferred across town from Mt. Lebanon High School to Bishop Canevin.

According to a report by TribLive.com, The PIAA determined that Wagner’s move was “motivated in some material way by an athletic purpose.”

Wagner took to social media to show his dismay with the decision and referenced Mt. Lebanon coach Greg Perry.

Sad in this generation how a 60 year old man can take away a kids dream without punishment. Then he tells players from Mount Lebanon he was only contesting it so that I would come back to Mount Lebanon to play for him.

Per the report, Wagner was slated to compete for the starting quarterback position at Bishop Canevin after seeing minimal time under center at Mt. Lebanon last season.

The junior isn’t alone when it comes to PIAA eligibility rulings for the upcoming 2025 campaign.

The PIAA also ruled recently that Seton LaSalle sophomore quarterback Anthony Smith is also ineligible for the fall after they believed the player transferred for athletic intent. Smith played a significant amount of snaps for Southmoreland in 2024, with the quarterback completing 129 of 244 passes for 2,110 yards and 22 touchdowns.

There was also the case of three players being ruled ineligible for 2025 back in mid-July, with a Pennsylvania district ruling against three of six student-athletes who transferred into Bishop McCort Catholic High School.

“We got three kids through and we have the right to appeal on the other three, and you better believe we’re going to fight like hell for them to get their opportunity,” Bishop McCort Catholic principal and head football coach Tom Smith said via a Tribune-Democrat report. “This is America. It’s all about opportunity”

The three aforementioned players that were ruled unable to compete for the upcoming high school football season were Zymir and Julius Reed, from Greater Johnstown, and Dominick Chippie, who was at Windber Area last year. All three, however, were granted eligibility to compete in track and field during the upcoming 2025-26 school year.