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Fullback Leon Jacobs has been granted a medical hardship waiver by the NCAA, according to UW, meaning he’ll be eligible to play for the Badgers in 2017.

Jacobs, who would have been a senior this season, lost his starting job at inside linebacker in 2015 after being ejected for targeting against Troy in Week 3. He played in just one more game — for a total of four on the season — before re-aggregating a toe injury he suffered during fall camp.

Typical NCAA rules only allow medical redshirts to players who have played in no more than 30 percent of their team’s season. At four games, Jacobs played 31 percent of the season, but the NCAA still granted Jacobs an extra year.

Jacobs, now a fullback, is competing with Alec Ingold for the No. 2 spot on the depth chart behind Austin Ramesh.

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