Kansas football player Angus Quigley will return for his sixth year of eligibility after taking advantage of an NCAA waiver that permits extension of five-year eligibility under some circumstances.

The waiver of the five-year period of eligibility is designed to give student-athletes a fourth season of competition if the student-athlete has been deprived of the opportunity for more than one season due to circumstances out of his/her control. Quigley missed the 2005 and 2006 seasons with injuries.

Quigley, who switched from the backfield to linebacker last season, will return as a running back under Turner Gill.

“I wasn’t planning on coming back, but I love KU and I love playing football,” Quigley said. “I heard about the new coaching staff and the way they were going to coach and the values they were going to instill and it interested me. I went to the first team meeting with him (new head coach Turner Gill). He is a players’ coach and is respectful.”

Quigley is excited about returning to his natural position at running back. He appeared in six games in 2007, rushing 17 times for 98 yards. He carried the ball 59 times for 309 yards in 11 games.

“Angus came to me in December and told me that he would like to play another year and I told him ‘I would be glad to have you,’” Gill said.