Brendan Sorsby will remain the NFL\u2019s No. 1 story until next month\u2019s supplemental draft, and until the Pittsburgh Steelers officially pass on him, there\u2019s enough \u201cwhat-if\u201d to merit a conversation about him. Intriguing as the talented quarterback might be, insiders Mark Kaboly and Ray Fittipaldo are confident Sorsby will be playing elsewhere in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re in any position to take a flyer on a guy like Brendan Sorsby,\u201d Fittipaldo said Sunday night on the KDKA No. 1 Cochran Sports Show. \u201cHe\u2019s intriguing, but to me, there\u2019s just too much baggage with all that gambling stuff in his background.\u201d<\/p>\n
With good size, a live arm, and plus athleticism, Sorsby has first-round traits. His gambling scandal prevented him from starting at Texas Tech and being one of the top 2027 prospects.<\/a> But with the Steelers already pouring into young quarterbacks like Will Howard and Drew Allar, Fittipaldo doesn\u2019t see the Steelers taking another swing on one.<\/p>\n \u201cI could bet you this, it\u2019s not gonna be the Steelers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Kaboly agreed.<\/p>\n \u201cI would more wait til next year and figure out the first-, second-round draft pick of a quarterback next year,\u201d he said. \u201cI would pass on Sorsby.\u201d<\/p>\n Both agreed Pittsburgh is unlikely to be Sorsby\u2019s suitor. Even with a quarterback-minded head coach like Mike McCarthy, Sorsby\u2019s baggage is likely too much for the team to stomach. Rarely does Pittsburgh draft players with clear off-field red flags. Perhaps the last one the Steelers selected was Ohio State OT Mike Adams, taken off Pittsburgh\u2019s board after failing a marijuana test and put back on it after Adams personally pled his case.<\/a> He ultimately proved to be the wrong pick.<\/p>\n Factor in Sorsby\u2019s situation as a future face of the franchise, its eventual starting quarterback, and it\u2019s too much of a distraction for a first-year head coach trying to win now.<\/p>\n Fittipaldo speculated that the Cleveland Browns or New York Jets will draft him instead. Given their depth charts, that\u2019s possible. But it\u2019s equally likely that a dark-horse team submits the winning bid. A Kansas City, Philadelphia, or Dallas. A strong organization where Sorsby will sit and learn instead of being rushed into the lineup. Pittsburgh qualifies as that type of team, but this isn\u2019t the right time to take that chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Sorsby will remain the NFL\u2019s No. 1 story until next month\u2019s supplemental draft, and until the Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[59985,7,5241,6,520,57,2360,7827,426],"class_list":["post-925804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-brendan-sorsby","tag-football","tag-mark-kaboly","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-pittsburghsteelers","tag-ray-fittipaldo","tag-steelers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116794149016821636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925804","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=925804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}