NFL refuses to hold supplemental draft for Brendan Sorsby, citing integrity concerns over betting history

Brendan Sorsby’s NFL early won’t statesman successful 2026, arsenic nan convention decided not to clasp a supplemental draught this year.

Sorsby admitted to a agelong play of sports betting connected assemblage and pro teams, pinch bets totaling complete $90,000. Among those bets were immoderate connected Indiana Hoosiers football, which he played for astatine nan time.  

As portion of nan corporate bargaining statement betwixt nan convention and nan Players’ Association, it held nan correct to person a draught successful nan first place. Thus, convention officials felt it would beryllium a distraction to teams to clasp nan supplemental draught arsenic training campy was group to commencement later this summer.

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Brendan Sorsby of nan Cincinnati Bearcats walks disconnected nan section aft nan squad defeated nan Baylor Bears 41-20 astatine Nippert Stadium successful Cincinnati, Ohio, connected Oct. 25, 2025. (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Larry Ferazani, General Counsel of nan NFL Management Council, penned a missive to Sorsby explaining nan league’s decision.

"The League has not conducted specified a draught for respective years and, anterior to your submission, nan League had nary plans to do truthful this year, arsenic nary different subordinate has sought entry," Ferazani’s missive read, per aggregate outlets. "Your Petition – revenge 3 business days earlier nan deadline, without immoderate supporting accusation aliases documentation, and only aft abandoning your caller litigation efforts to debar NCAA sanctions – does not supply a ground for nan League to change those plans. The issues presented by your Petition are excessively significant, and excessively intimately tied to nan League’s halfway integrity interest, to licence meaningful reappraisal wrong nan timeline presented.

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Ferazani’s missive continued by saying nan "sole reasons" for seeking introduction into a supplemental draught was owed to being "declared ineligible" by nan NCAA aft trying each avenues to proceed his collegiate career. It besides points retired really Sorsby’s petition to nan convention doesn’t reside his gambling history.

"Your Petition does not reside these matters. Nor does it show accountability for your behaviour aliases bespeak whether, aliases how, you would adhere to nan League’s rules and policies governing nan integrity of competition. Instead, moreover aft receiving announcement of nan NCAA’s determination rescinding your assemblage eligibility successful May, you sought to debar nan consequences of that determination done litigation alternatively than accepting work for your actions, and you pursued introduction into nan NFL only aft abandoning those efforts.

Quarterback Brendan Sorsby of nan Cincinnati Bearcats speaks pinch nan media during Big 12 Media Days astatine The Ford Center astatine The Star successful Frisco, Texas, connected July 8, 2025. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)

"As Commissioner Goodell has emphasized, information successful nan NFL is simply a privilege that carries pinch it important responsibilities, including accountability. By each accounts, you are a talented subordinate pinch nan imaginable for early success. We promote you to attraction connected preparing for imaginable introduction into nan NFL done nan 2027 NFL Annual Draft."

Sorsby’s attorney, Jeffrey Kessler, told OutKick’s Trey Wallace that nan league’s determination is "a usurpation of nan CBA and nan law."

"We will prosecute this instantly pinch nan NFLPA," Kessler added.

Texas Tech's Brendan Sorsby looks connected during nan outpouring shot crippled astatine Jones AT&T Stadium connected April 17, 2026. (© Nathan Giese/Avalanche-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Sorsby had been successful nan mediate of an NCAA investigation tied to his sports betting for months starring up to an eventual divided pinch Texas Tech. He yet decided to portion ways pinch nan programme connected nan aforesaid time nan Big 12 revenge a suit successful a Texas national tribunal wherever it wished to beryllium provided pinch powerfulness to punishment nan Red Raiders for playing Sorsby this season.

Now, arsenic Sorsby’s attraction will proceed connected battling a gambling addiction, he whitethorn person to look elsewhere to proceed playing. The UFL’s play completed earlier this month, and nan Canadian Football League runs from June done November. Sorsby could besides return clip disconnected and hole for nan 2027 NFL Draft, conscionable arsenic Ferazani’s missive suggests.

OutKick's Trey Wallace contributed to this report. 

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