Former Purdue forward Trey Kaufman-Renn has filed a court motion to obtain a sixth year of collegiate eligibility, Nathan Baird writes for the Indy Star.

Kaufman-Renn redshirted his first season before going on to play the next four years at Purdue, where he averaged 11.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game over his career. He was named First Team All-Big 10 in his junior season after averaging 20.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.

While the four seasons played in addition to the redshirt year would seem to end his ability to play in college, the 24-year-old is arguing that under the previous eligibility rules, someone who missed out on all or most of a season due to injury — as he did as a freshman in 2021/22, when he suffered a knee injury that required surgery — could get another year of eligibility, even if said injury resulted in redshirting the season, as he did. The current eligibility rules have closed that exception.

“He does not ask this Court to give him something the old rules withheld,” his attorney, Mickey Weber, wrote. “He asks not to be the one person left outside a benefit the NCAA handed to everyone else. In withholding it, the NCAA has also forbidden every institution in Division I from competing for his services, which is a restraint of trade under Indiana law.”

While Baird writes that the question of whether he’d return to Purdue, should his motion be granted, is a complicated one, Kaufman-Renn is claiming that multiple programs have shown interest in him, and he has asked the court not to “prevent him from enrolling at, transferring to, practicing with, or competing for” any NCAA team.

He is also asking for his NBA draft status not to be held against him in the official deliberation. Kaufman-Renn was picked 59th in the 2026 Draft by the Timberwolves, with whom he subsequently played five Summer League games, averaging 6.6 points and 3.8 rebounds in 12.7 minutes per game.

He has yet to sign a deal with the Wolves, who have already filled all three of their two-way spots.