If certain reports are to be believed, the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets are among the teams that likely will not bid on former Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby during the upcoming supplemental draft for the NFL.
During a Wednesday appearance on Dallas sports radio station 105.3 The Fan, agent Ron Slavin revealed how many teams he has heard from since it was first learned earlier this week that Sorsby plans to enter the supplemental draft.
Well over half the league has reached out about Brendan Sorsby?
“Twenty-two between general managers and college scouting directors reached out yesterday, and then four more already this morning,” Slavin said, per Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. “And I know [coach Joey McGuire is] getting a ton of phone calls at Tech. Like I said, there aren’t a lot of guys walking around 6-foot-3, 235 [pounds] and can move like [Sorsby] and throw it like him.”
Sorsby is seen by some as “a second-round, developmental pick.” Of course, his stock almost certainly will be impacted by the fact that he checked into a residential treatment program to deal with a gambling addiction earlier this offseason and has admitted to gambling on Indiana games, along with other sports, when he was with the Hoosiers.
What NFL teams want to know about Brendan Sorsby
One report shared that the Pittsburgh Steelers “are currently doing their homework” on Sorsby. Slavin touched upon that homework during Wednesday’s segment.
“I mean, the questions are just, you know, ‘What really happened here?’ Because I will give the NFL credit there,” Slavin explained. “The media can give people, you know, an opinion, but it isn’t the tell-all. So they’re gonna do their due diligence. They all have companies that work for them that can, you know, find out everything they need to find out anyway. The reality is, most of the questions, you know, are, ‘What does he weigh in? What would he run?’ You know, it’s more football-related than the character stuff just because, again, they’re gonna do their digging on that side of it.”
The Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Houston Texans are among teams with starting quarterbacks atop their depth charts that have been linked with Sorsby. The supplemental draft will reportedly take place on or before July 16, so teams still have plenty of time to do their digging regarding Sorsby’s history with gambling before they will have to decide whether or not acquiring him is worth taking on the baggage he will bring into a locker room.