{"id":902285,"date":"2026-05-27T03:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/902285\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:45:20","slug":"how-will-the-nfl-handle-brendan-sorsbys-gambling-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/902285\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will the NFL Handle Brendan Sorsby’s Gambling History?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right now, it looks as if the 2027 class of draft-eligible quarterbacks will be an all-timer. With Texas<\/a>‘ Arch Manning<\/a> up top, and the likes of Oregon<\/a>‘s Dante Moore<\/a>, Ohio State<\/a>\u2019s Julian Sayin<\/a>, Ole Miss<\/a>\u2019 Trinidad Chambliss<\/a>, South Carolina<\/a>‘s LaNorris Sellers<\/a>, Oklahoma State<\/a>\u2019s Drew Mestemaker<\/a>, and Notre Dame<\/a>\u2019s C.J. Carr as part of the group, the NFL<\/a> should have more options at the game’s most important position than was the case in 2026 \u2014 when Indiana<\/a>‘s Fernando Mendoza<\/a> was the only first-round pick, and there was not much else in the hopper.<\/p>\n

The wild card right now is Texas Tech<\/a>‘s Brendan Sorsby<\/a>, the former Cincinnati star who entered the transfer portal, and then was waylaid by his history of gambling. On Tuesday, the NCAA moved to make Sorsby permanently ineligible regarding college football<\/a> due to his gambling history \u2014 specifically, bets he allegedly made on Indiana football<\/a> when he was a member of the Hoosiers’ program in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Both Texas Tech and Sorsby will appeal the decision, but if the decision sticks, Sorsby has until June 22 to make himself eligible for the NFL supplemental draft. Sorsby has completed a treatment program designed to help him handle his issues.<\/p>\n

Sorsby has also released a statement.<\/p>\n

Recently, I spoke with Robert Griffin III about Sorsby’s football future<\/a>, and he’s spoken with some NFL people who aren’t exactly sure how they’ll handle it if Sorsby does enter the supplemental draft.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s very rare that we see quarterbacks go through the supplemental draft and, either get drafted higher, or be put in a position where they can truly compete at the highest level to be a starter in the NFL,” Griffin said. “But I had an opportunity to call a Brendan Sorsby game last year. Two of them. And he has this sweet, fade away, box fade throw that he loves. And it\u2019s very\u00a0Aaron Rodgers-esque. It\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s like poetry in motion. I can\u2019t say enough about it.<\/p>\n

“But the bottom line with Sorsby, when it comes to his play on the field, I want to see him play more winning football. And that\u2019s why I was excited to see him go to Texas Tech, because at Cincinnati, there was a point last year where he was leading the\u00a0Big 12<\/a>\u00a0in touchdown passes, but you wouldn\u2019t have known it based off of how the ebb and flow of their team was, especially late in the year.<\/p>\n

“He has all the arm talent that you need. He\u2019s got the size, um, he can make every single throw, and he\u2019s got the moxie. He was banged up late in the year with an ankle injury, but I wanted to see him go play winning football at Tech.”<\/p>\n

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But as Griffin said, it’s the off-field stuff that will have NFL teams thinking twice.<\/p>\n

“They take into account all these things on the field and off the field, because when you\u2019re a quarterback in the NFL, you\u2019re not just there to throw the football. You\u2019re there to lead an organization. Whether you\u2019re the starter, you\u2019re the backup, you\u2019re the third guy, they have to trust you with the organization in your hands. And you have to prove that you\u2019re worthy of being trusted.<\/p>\n

Sorsby’s talent has “first round” written all over it, but the other complications will get in the way until and unless.<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on May 26, 2026, where it first appeared in the College Football<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right now, it looks as if the 2027 class of draft-eligible quarterbacks will be an all-timer. With Texas‘…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[615,59985,6446,67726,3619,7,932,26781,2226,28659,9734,6,36902,1446,683,202,1686,36901,51,2299,65456],"class_list":["post-902285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arch-manning","tag-brendan-sorsby","tag-dante-moore","tag-drew-mestemaker","tag-fernando-mendoza","tag-football","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-football","tag-julian-sayin","tag-justin-williams","tag-lanorris-sellers","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-supplemental-draft","tag-ohio-state","tag-oregon","tag-robert-griffin-iii","tag-south-carolina","tag-supplemental-draft","tag-texas","tag-texas-tech","tag-trinidad-chambliss"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116644487071177223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}