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

Brendan Sorsby’s NFL aboriginal won’t statesman successful 2026, arsenic the league decided not to clasp a supplemental draught this year.

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

As portion of the corporate bargaining statement betwixt the league and the Players’ Association, it held the close to person a draught successful the archetypal place. Thus, league officials felt it would beryllium a distraction to teams to clasp the supplemental draught arsenic grooming campy was acceptable to commencement aboriginal this summer.

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

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

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

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

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

Quarterback Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats speaks with the 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 the NFL is simply a privilege that carries with it important responsibilities, including accountability. By each accounts, you are a talented subordinate with the imaginable for aboriginal success. We promote you to absorption connected preparing for imaginable introduction into the NFL done the 2027 NFL Annual Draft."

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

"We volition prosecute this instantly with the NFLPA," Kessler added.

Texas Tech's Brendan Sorsby looks connected during the 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 the mediate of an NCAA probe tied to his sports betting for months starring up to an eventual divided with Texas Tech. He yet decided to portion ways with the programme connected the aforesaid time the Big 12 filed a suit successful a Texas national tribunal wherever it wished to beryllium provided with powerfulness to authorisation the Red Raiders for playing Sorsby this season.

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

OutKick's Trey Wallace contributed to this report. 

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