Agent: Texas Tech nudged Brendan Sorsby to apply for supplemental draft
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So why did quarterback Brendan Sorsby decide to enter the supplemental draft? As his agent tells it, Sorsby believed Texas Tech wanted to move on from a difficult situation.
Appearing Wednesday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, agent Ron Slavin explained Sorsby's decision to waive his remaining college football eligibility by withdrawing his lawsuit and heading to the NFL.
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"It just came down to too much pressure from everybody else on Tech, and Brendan still wanted to play at Tech," Slavin said. "This wasn't Brendan Sorsby not wanting to play college football. This was Brendan Sorsby just being advised by the school that, 'I think it's time for you' — you know, we had seven days left to file for the supplemental draft and didn't know where this thing was gonna go. So, we won in court. We did our job on our side, but, for whatever reason, the world melted down like college football was ruined forever."
Although Slavin eventually pegged the decision as a 50-50 split between Sorsby and Texas Tech "just to make everybody happy," it's clear from the overall interview that Slavin (and, by extension, Sorsby) believes Tech got skittish.
"When we made the decision to hire Jeffrey Kessler, you know, he's the Harlem Globetrotters," Slavin said. "You know, he doesn't lose. And the NCAA, unfortunately, is the Washington Generals. So, you know, that's kind of how we stood on it. And we still haven't — we didn't lose. That's the thing."
Still, Texas Tech wasn't comfortable in continuing the fight, especially after it went from Sorsby vs. the NCAA to the Big 12 vs. Texas Tech.
"Texas Tech didn't want to go through the process and jeopardize a situation where the Big 12 makes up rules as they go, and says, 'He can't play in the Big 12 championship game,' or the CFP comes out and says he can't play the CFP," Slavin said. "Then he played a season for nothing. And with seven days before the supplemental draft, you know, Tech thought it was in Brendan's best interests to move forward with that instead of — I mean, the other thing is you have a roster of 90 kids. So those 90 kids are — they're affected too. So that was where Brendan was, like, 'I don't want to screw these guys over, either, with, you know, get through the season, we go 12-0, and then they pull the rug out from us.'"
It really was the most prudent decision. Despite Sorsby's win in court, the Big 12 had filed suit against Texas Tech and the NCAA had requested an appeal with the goal of having a decision in place before the start of the 2026 college football season. If Sorsby hadn't applied for the supplemental draft, he would have risked encountering all sorts of judicial mayhem if he'd stayed at Texas Tech.
Ultimately, he would have risked being not only a man without a team in 2026, but a man without a league.