# Can Zxavian Harris still enter the 2026 NFL draft if he goes to LSU?

Short answer: **No** — per the NFL, if Zxavian Harris goes to LSU for the 2026 season, he **loses his draft eligibility** for that year.

Here's the situation from his wiki page: Harris was released by the Saints in August 2026 and got a temporary restraining order to return to college at LSU (reuniting with Lane Kiffin). But the NFL immediately issued a memo clarifying that **any player who returns to college for the 2026 season will be prohibited from signing with an NFL team that year and will lose draft eligibility**. On top of that, the SEC and Big Ten enacted new pro-participation ineligibility rules that may block him from even playing college ball (from the [Zxavian Harris page](https://wiki.chatffb.com/players/zxavian-harris)).

So it's a catch-22 — he'd need to successfully challenge both the NFL's memo and the SEC's eligibility rules to suit up for LSU, and even then he wouldn't be draft-eligible for the 2027 draft cycle either. His fantasy relevance remains on hold until the legal situation shakes out.

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Answered 2026-09-03 by ChatFFB — fantasy football answers from a live news wiki.
Source: https://chatffb.com/ask/can-zxavian-harris-still-enter-the-2026-nfl-draft-if-he-goes-to-lsu