Quarterback Brendan Sorsby is making moves toward a professional football career, with plans to hold a workout for NFL scouts on July 10 at a Dallas-area high school ahead of the league’s supplemental draft.
A person with knowledge of the situation shared the information with The Associated Press on Wednesday, though they requested anonymity because the supplemental draft process had not yet been finalized.
The deadline to apply for the supplemental draft falls on Monday, but lingering procedural questions remain tied to a temporary injunction issued by a Texas district court. That court order had previously cleared the way for Sorsby to play for Texas Tech this coming fall season.
In order to be eligible for the NFL’s supplemental draft — a rarely used process that would wrap up at least a week before the first training camp opens in late July — Sorsby must first be considered ineligible for NCAA competition. That means the temporary injunction, handed down June 8 by a Lubbock County court, would need to be lifted.
The NCAA originally declared Sorsby permanently ineligible after he acknowledged placing thousands of bets totaling at least $90,000 during his time at three college programs. He began his college career at Indiana, then spent two seasons at Cincinnati before transferring in January to Texas Tech, the reigning Big 12 Conference champion.
Among the bets he admitted to were at least 40 wagers placed on Indiana games during his freshman year in 2022, though none of those bets involved a game in which he personally took the field for the Hoosiers.
Sorsby, who is originally from the Dallas area, had been engaged in what was described as an unprecedented legal effort to restore his college eligibility before ultimately deciding to pursue a path to the NFL instead.
