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If you haven’t heard the news, former Indiana, Cincinnati and now Texas Tech quarterback Bredan Sorsby has applied for the 2026 supplemental draft. Sorsby (and Tech) was previously fighting to remain eligible to play college football this year after the NCAA attempted to ban him from the sport after it was revealed that he had previously placed bets on the Hoosiers to win football games when he was the team’s backup quarterback.
Now, there are a couple of questions that need to be answered about his situation moving forward.
The NFL has taken in players who have done this in the past. One example is Hunter Dekkers, who was signed to the New Orleans Saints last offseason as a college free agent. Like Sorsby, Dekkers bet on his team, Iowa State, when he was a backup quarterback. The NCAA banned him, leading to Dekkers dropping down to the JuCo level for a year before going the professional route.
What’s up in the air, though, is whether the NFL will allow Sorsby to enter the supplemental draft. Because the NFL is operating as a pseudo cartel, the league can’t legally ban a player before he ever steps foot in the league. Roger Goodell is going to have to put the decision on whether Sorsby is going to be an NFL player or not in the hands of general managers and owners across the league, eventually. It’s almost entirely up to the discretion of Goodell to decide whether or not a player should be included in the potential pool of supplemental draft prospects, though, so Goodell telling Sorsby that he’ll just need to be a member of the 2027 draft class and sit out this fall is completely on the table.
Even if he is made eligible for the supplemental draft, the next question is going to be how long Sorsby will be suspended by the league, or if he’s suspended at all. In the past, Roger Goodell upheld the five-game suspension in the NFL that supplementary draft choice Terrelle Pryor was supposed to serve at the college level. Will it be a couple of games? Will it be Sorsby’s rookie season? Will there be no suspension at all? It’s all speculation at this point.
What is known is that Sorsby does have legitimate NFL talent. Going into the 2026 draft cycle, Sorsby was consistently ranked as a top-100 selection, with the upside of potentially rising into the first round due to the weakness at the quarterback position in the class. Instead of declaring early, though, Sorsby returned to college and transferred from Cincinnati to Tech. He was generally considered to be the number one player in the transfer portal at his position this offseason.
For those unaware of how the supplemental draft works, it’s a blind bid and teams bid an original draft choice from the 2027 draft that would essentially be consumed if they were awarded Sorsby as the highest bidder. If multiple teams place the highest bid, in terms...
