It looks like Brendan Sorsby won't be taking his talents to the NFL after all. Not this year, at least.
According to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, the NFL has announced that it will not be holding a Supplemental Draft this year, which means Sorsby is not eligible to join the NFL in 2026. Per the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the NFL gets discretion over whether to hold a Supplemental Draft and has decided not to.
"The NFL has informed teams that it will NOT be holding a Supplemental Draft, meaning Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby will not be eligible to enter the NFL in 2026. The CBA allows the league to decide whether to hold a Supplemental Draft, and this year, it won’t," Rapoport wrote.
It's a massive blow to Sorsby's playing career, as he's already dropped his lawsuits to try and get eligibility to play at Texas Tech in 2026. Now that the NFL is off the table, he's basically trapped without any way of playing football this year.
He is, however, eligible to enter the 2027 NFL Draft now.
Fan Response
NFL fans were pretty happy to see that Sorsby was getting swatted away by the league due to his admissions to betting on football:
"Good, keep the gambler out of the league for now. Send him to rehab until next years draft," one user on X declared.
"Wow they are really making an example out of him," another wrote.
"Thank god. It’s over bud. Move on," wrote a third.
"Good for them... Make an example of this low life clown vs handing him millions."
"CFL is about to have a star quarterback!"
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Sorsby admitted to betting on football while he was playing and some of the claims about the extent to which he was gambling are pretty shocking. He was ruled ineligible for the 2026 season with Texas Tech but briefly managed to get an injunction to avoid that ineligibility, which caused an entirely different set of controversies in college football.
But, in the end, Sorsby decided to bite the bullet and withdraw his lawsuit, in hopes of getting to join the NFL.
Now that that door has been slammed shut for another 10 months, he's going to have to find some other way to prepare for his pro career (assuming he still has one).
