The NFL says no to Brendan Sorsby.
The disgraced college quarterback, who admitted to betting approximately $90,000 on college football games while at Cincinnati and Indiana — in some cases on his own team — will have to wait to enter the NFL until next year after the league declined to hold a 2026 supplemental draft, according to multiple reports.
The league can decide whether it will have a supplemental draft, and the NFL rebuffed his formal request to be included in a potential supplemental draft.
Sorsby reportedly will challenge the league’s decision, however.
“It is a violation of the CBA and the law. We will pursue this immediately with the NFLPA,” Sorsby’s attorney Jeffrey Kessler told ESPN.
Sorsby can play in other professional leagues this upcoming season, but he cannot sign with an NFL team this season, forcing him to enter the 2027 NFL Draft.
NFL Network reported that the NFL’s decision was due to the inability to investigate Sorsby’s gambling issues in time.
Rather than rush an investigation, the NFL chose to avoid the distraction for teams prior to the season.
Multiple draft prognosticators projected Sorsby to be a borderline first-round pick if he were in the 2026 NFL Draft, with Sports Illustrated’ Albert Breer hearing that Sorsby’s tape was better than Ty Simpson’s, who was drafted No. 13 overall by the Rams.
The Jets were previously linked to Sorsby as a potential option to fill their quarterback needs and prediction market Kalshi had them as the favorites to select him if a supplemental draft occurred.
With that no longer in the cards, Sorsby will likely look to stay active and train with another league as he prepares for April 2027, when he aims to be selected with other hopefuls Arch Manning and Dante Moore.
Sorsby had been slated to play for Texas Tech but ultimately opted to enter the supplemental draft and forfeit his legally contested eligibility for the 2026 season.
