Brendan Sorsby was one of the most sought-after players in the NCAA transfer portal just a few months ago.
The four-star Cincinnati transfer ultimately landed at Texas Tech after speaking with a few schools, but now it doesn’t likely that he’ll play a snap for the Red Raiders next season or at any point.
News broke earlier this week that Sorsby announced he was entering a treatment program to help with a gambling addiction.
“Sorsby’s decision to seek treatment, according to sources, came in the wake of the discovery of Sorsby making thousands of online bets on a variety of sports via a gambling app, which jeopardizes his eligibility with Texas Tech,” ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported.
While it looks like Sorsby’s college career is over, many are wondering what his NFL future looks like now. If he’s deemed ineligible for the 2026 college season, the NFL supplemental draft could be a possible option.
But as CBS Sports insider Jonathan Jones reported, Sorsby’s gambling ties may prevent any NFL team from taking a chance on him next season.
“If (Sorsby) wanted to apply to the NFL for the supplemental draft, folks I’ve talked to believe that he would not be approved,” Jones said. “So, the supplemental draft seems like an extremely unlikely pathway for Brendan Sorsby this summer.
“The NFL is obviously very hard on those who gamble on NFL games. And while he is not in the NFL right now and would not be up against those rules — if you are in the NFL and you bet on your team, win or lose, you are banned at a minimum of two years, that’s how seriously the league takes this.
“… I had one high-ranking team executive tell me on Monday that (Sorsby) is untouchable right now…so this idea that he can bypass any sort of punishment from the NCAA and go to the NFL, that doesn’t seem like reality right now.”
Several scouts had Sorsby as a projected first-round pick in the 2027 NFL draft, and many college football analysts believed Sorsby would have been a Heisman Trophy candidate next season.
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