Hours after the Big 12 sued Texas Tech and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and hours after the NCAA filed an emergency motion to stay a trial judge’s ruling that let Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby play college football, Sorsby has decided to leave Texas Tech and go to the NFL.
That’s if the NFL allows it.
Things could get tricky with Sorsby wanting to enter the NFL; the league could let Sorsby enter but with strings, and maybe a suspension, attached.
The 22-year-old quarterback has reportedly applied to the NFL for eligibility in a supplemental draft to be held this summer, for players who weren’t eligible for the annual draft held in April, but who become eligible thereafter. The league hasn’t held one since 2023.
Per ESPN, after a weighted lottery to determine a supplemental draft order, NFL teams can, if they so choose, submit “bids” for a player by saying which round’s draft pick they would use on the player. The team that bids with the earliest draft choice—say, the 15th pick in the first round, which would beat another team’s second-round bid—can then sign the player, but it forfeits its choice in the same round in the following year’s college draft.
