MORGANTOWN -- The wait appears to finally be over for Jimmori Robinson.
fter a long, strenuous process, Robinson has been granted the green light to play for West Virginia's football team on Saturday against Kansas.
Robinson is one of four first-year Mountaineers who came to Morgantown by transfer who, after being ruled ineligible by the NCAA, were granted a preliminary injunction and restraining order, granting eligibility.
After that, though, Robinson, a transfer from UTSA, still faced academic ineligibility.
That's since been put to rest, as Mountaineers coach Rich Rodriguez confirmed Tuesday that Robinson is good to go.
"Jimmori Robinson, you'll see him in action this weekend," Rodriguez said. "He's excited. He's been waiting a long time."
The 6-foot-4, 250 pound bandit appeared in 44 games, starting in 13, at UTSA.
In his four years with the Roadrunners, Robinson totaled 110 tackles, 15 sacks, 30 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles and six pass breakups.
"We knew when we saw him [that] he's an athletic guy," Rodriguez said. "He's got all the physical skills that you want. We gotta remember that he's like a freshman. This is his very first game [in the WVU system] and all that. He's gotta play within the system."
Robinson provides more depth to the bandit group and looks to help out teammates Braden Siders and Curtis Jones Jr.
Mountaineers bandits have accounted for 18 tackles, with Siders and Jones combining for 15, as well as two tackles for loss and two sacks.
"He looks pretty good," WVU defensive coordinator Zac Alley said of Robinson. "I'm excited that, hopefully, we can actually get him on the field this week. It feels like it's been forever [with] an ongoing roller coaster from the time he got here.
"He's very athletic and can rush the passer. Plays physical to point of attack. All the things you saw on tape from coming out of UTSA, they look true in person."
West Virginia's defense is tied for second in Division I FBS in sacks, recording 12 through three games.
The Mountaineers are also tied for 25th nationally in tackles for loss, as they've totaled 22 to this point.
Robinson could see some time on the field when Alley decides to throw a two-bandit look at the opposition, which favored the Mountaineers a few times during last Saturday's Backyard Brawl against Pitt.
"It kind of varies game to game," Alley said. "But, there were some consistent looks and things we've done in the past that we get to. Obviously, every week we're gonna have something game-plan-wise that we will do to that team, whatever it is that they do that week."
Alley stated that the two bandit look gave Pitt quarterback Eli Holstein some issues last Saturday.
Pitt's Eli Holstein, despite passing for more than 300 yards, threw an interception in the red zone and was sacked six times.
"I thought that we could confuse the quarterback in that look with moving guys around and playing in different places," Alley said. "[It] gives you more coverage and variations of things you can do. We hadn't really shown that, and I knew they wouldn't be prepared for it."
WVU's defense will go toe-to-toe against a Kansas offense that has found success, averaging 36 points per game (No. 9 in the Big 12), 248 passing yards per game (T-No. 6 in the Big 12) and 174 rushing yards per game (11th in the Big 12).
