Scouting Notebook: The Brendan Sorsby of it all...

What I am hearing about Brendan Sorsby and where he stands after applying for the Supplemental Draft

Former Cincinnati and the short-lived Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is officially seeking entry into the Supplemental Draft.

This comes after a months-long legal battle over his eligibility, blowback across college football, and after the Big 12 ponied up to seek final authority over his eligibility. His eligibility, of course, came into question after it was found that Sorsby had placed numerous bets, including on his own team during his time at Indiana, leading to a stint in a treatment facility and the mess that has been left behind.

Sorsby and Texas Tech finally laid their weapons down and shelved the lawsuits. The battle is over at the college level. Sorsby will now see which team takes a shot at him in the Supplemental Draft. He is a supremely physically gifted thrower and runner in a prototypical NFL quarterback frame; he’s going to have takers.

If you are looking for an in-depth breakdown on the quarterback, I wrote one below:

Here is what I know so far about Sorsby’s draft stock ahead of the Supplemental Draft:

Table of Contents

• How the Supplemental Draft works

• How does the league view him and his off-field baggage?

• Where could Sorsby be selected?

• Who could be interested in Sorsby?

How the Supplemental Draft works

Brendan Sorsby has completed the first step of the process: he has applied for the Supplemental Draft. The NFL now must approve his application, and if/when they do, this will be the first Supplemental Draft since 2019.

If a team is interested in Sorsby, they will then submit a blind bid to the NFL, wagering a draft pick from the following year’s NFL Draft. So, teams must use their 2027 NFL Draft picks. They can wager any pick they own, whether it is their own pick or a pick acquired in a trade from another team.

Draft order does matter for the Supplemental Draft, but not the same way it does for the actual NFL Draft. Instead, teams are sorted into three tiers: Teams with six or fewer wins, the remaining non-playoff teams, and the 14 teams that made the playoffs.

Those teams in each tier are placed into a lottery. So, if the Browns and Jets both placed an identical bid on Sorsby, being in the same tier, then whoever was given priority within that first tier based on the lottery would acquire Sorsby’s services.

If a team in the first tier and a team in the second tier placed an identical bid, the team in the first tier would get Sorsby. However, if a team in the second tier placed a higher bid on Sorsby than a team in tier one, the team in tier two would get the quarterback.