Brendan Sorsby Enters NFL Supplemental Draft After 40-Plus Team Bets Spark College Revolt
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Updated · CBS Sports · Jun 16
Brendan Sorsby Enters NFL Supplemental Draft After 40-Plus Team Bets Spark College Revolt
3 articles · Updated · CBS Sports · Jun 16
Summary
One week after a Texas judge blocked the NCAA from enforcing Sorsby’s career ban, the Texas Tech quarterback chose the NFL supplemental draft and exited college football.
More than 40 wagers on Indiana games while he was the Hoosiers’ freshman quarterback in 2022 triggered the suspension fight, even after Sorsby entered gambling rehabilitation and faced a proposed two-game ban under the injunction.
Big 12 leaders, rival programs and attorneys general from Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah rallied against the ruling, while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened action if the conference interfered.
Texas Tech had backed Sorsby’s lawsuit and invested more than $5 million to land him from Cincinnati, but his departure relieves pressure on the school, the NCAA and a sport alarmed over betting on one’s own team.