The NCAA has granted Texas Tech football linebacker Bryce Ramirez a seventh year of eligibility, and safety Devynn Cromwell will get a sixth, a Tech official said. Both actions were expected.
Tech athletics spokesman Matt Dowdy said Friday that Ramirez has received an eligibility-clock extension based on the season-ending leg injury he suffered in the third game of the 2022 season. Tech received confirmation around the time of the Red Raiders‘ 2024 finale against Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl, Dowdy said.
Cromwell’s additional time stems from the NCAA’s decision in December to grant an extra year to 2024 seniors who began their college careers at non-NCAA schools. Cromwell spent 2020 through 2023 playing football at the University of Guelph in Ontario. That program is a member of Ontario University Athletics, a regional association under the U Sports governing body in Canada.
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Tech previously announced starting offensive guard Davion Carter, who played two years of junior-college football in Mississippi, also will stay with the Red Raiders for the extra year.
Ramirez suffered a lower-leg compound fracture in his first career start in September 2022 at North Carolina State. He returned in less than a full year and has been in the two-deep the past two seasons, getting credit for 21 tackles in 2023 and 17 in 2024. He also had an interception.
Ramirez played high school baseball as well as football at Richmond George Ranch. He said earlier in his career he was attracted to the Red Raiders as much by the success of Tim Tadlock’s baseball program, which made the College World Series four times from 2014-19. At his mother’s urging, Ramirez went to an open tryout for unrecruited walk-on hopefuls and caught the eye of the then-Matt Wells staff.
He joined the team in January 2019. He redshirted in 2019, and the NCAA gave a blanket waiver to players on rosters during the Covid-disrupted 2020 season.
After starting offensive guard Vinny Sciury suffered a season-ending knee injury in the second game of the 2024 season, Tech coach Joey McGuire said Sciury asked that Tech seek a medical hardship waiver on his behalf. Tech subsequently determined that Sciury doesn’t need the eligibility-clock extension, Dowdy said.
The 2024 campaign will count as Sciury’s regular redshirt season. He began his college career in 2020, which doesn’t cost him eligibility because of the Covid-bonus year, and used three years of eligibility from 2021-23.
Tech starts spring practice March 10.
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