You have to petition the NCAA to get another year of eligibility at the end of the season and based on Chuckie's situation, he most likely wouldn't get one. You can't just declare that you are redshirting someone that played in the first 3 games because he tweaked his knee. If you could, a lot of teams would do that after a rough start to a season.

Also, Wells never danced around the question, he said that Chuckie was practicing and seeing how he felt. It was Kevin Whimpey that said he'd refer all questions to Remington Peck.