sort of advantage in life and for some parents, that actually so as parents, we all do things to give our kids some sort of advantage in life and for some parents, that actually means holdingng them back a year in school. some might do this for academics. more and more families are doing this for sports. jesse palmer with this story. > the nfl s number one draft pick jameis winston chosen by the tampa bay buccaneers famously redshirted his first year in college. a practice of getting an extra year to play on the college team. winston sacked at the 30 yard line by the freshman corner brian fields. that guy tackling winston, brian fields, he also redshirted. according to a report by espn s outside the lines, fields didn t red shirt in college. he did it in the eighth grade. his parents holding him back a year to be more competitive in sports. take out the athletic part of it, if we say we repeated eighth grade because he struggled in math, nobody would have a problem with it.