Should These Blue-Chip Recruits Redshirt? We Explain

With the 2021 NCAA cross country season fast approaching, we're eager to see how certain Class of 2021 athletes will fare at the next level.

However, there is a very real possibility that some of these incoming rookies won't race at all in the fall. Oftentimes, coaches at the collegiate level will choose to redshirt their promising youngsters in an effort to preserve their eligibility for the future.

Below, we take a guess at which of those star rookie athletes could be candidates for a redshirt season. 

Parker Wolfe, North Carolina

Let's make something clear: Wolfe is incredible. He's the reigning Gatorade National Cross Country Player of the Year. In fact, I would argue that the Colorado native is one of the more underrated high school cross country runners of the past five years. The records he broke, especially at altitude, put him i...