Previous reports suggested that the NFL will ultimately accept former Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby into this year’s supplemental draft.
It now seems like it’s not a slam dunk that Sorsby will be available to clubs via the supplemental draft.
Brendan Sorsby’s camp only has “hope” about supplemental draft?
Sorsby’s agent, Ron Slavin, was asked by Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio on Monday if Slavin has reason to believe the NFL won’t let Sorsby become part of this year’s supplemental draft.
“I would hope not,” Slavin responded. “I mean, if anybody reads the NCAA investigation, they went through all four years of Brendan’s bets. The conclusion was there’s never integrity of the game violations. Again, his bets at Indiana were from the dorm room, not on the travel roster. The minute he was on the travel roster, there was never another college football bet ever placed.”
Sorsby admitted to gambling on Indiana games when he was a member of that program. Sorsby also entered a residential treatment program to deal with a gambling addiction earlier this spring.
Florio previously pointed out that a lawyer would have to file a lawsuit on Sorsby’s behalf if the league denies the signal-caller entry into the supplemental draft because Sorsby won’t become a member of the NFL Players Association until he’s drafted or signs a contract with a team.
Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets and Cleveland Browns are allegedly among the clubs that don’t “want to deal with the sports gambling baggage that Sorsby would bring with him” this summer.
Brendan Sorsby “never bet on college football once he actually was playing”
“What I keep hearing over and over and over is, ‘Oh, can I trust this kid on my roster? Is he gonna bet on games that he plays in?’ He had 35 starts in college football,” Slavin added about Sorsby. “He never bet on any games he played in. He never bet on college football once he actually was playing. Again, I think this was a situation where we’ve created 18-to-22-year old kids, if they’re gonna watch a game, they’re gonna put money on it. And at the time, that’s what he did. But he never did it again. And, I mean, this is a kid who literally doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke. He’s just a great kid who, you know, made a mistake at 18.”
The 2026 supplemental draft will take place on or before July 16. It remains to be seen when Sorsby will learn his status for that player-selection process and when teams will find out if he will be suspended by the league.