Bredan Sorsby to challenge NFL ruling on his eligibility for the draft
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The Brendan Sorsby saga is not over yet. According to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, Sorsby and his attorney plan to fight the NFL's decision to keep him out of the Supplemental Draft, and he may have a good chance of winning.
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This is what the league's policy is on this situation:
“If a player who was not eligible for the Draft in any League Year becomes eligible after the date of the Draft, he will be eligible to be selected in a Supplemental Draft, if the League elects to conduct such a Draft, on or before the seventh calendar day prior to the opening of the first training camp that League Year. No player may elect to bypass a Draft for which he is eligible to apply for selection in a Supplemental Draft.”
So, according to Florio, the question is not his gambling but his eligibility.
Article 6, Section 2(b), when “three NFL regular seasons have begun and ended following either his graduation from high school or graduation of the class with which he entered high school, whichever is earlier.” Sorsby, if he had decided to forgo remaining college eligibility, could have entered the 2026 draft in April under the “special eligibility” rule.
To break it down, according to the rules, Sorsby is eligible for the Supplemental Draft. Now the NFL could come back and reverse their decision but still make Sorsby sit a bit because of his gambling allegations, which may be a compromise both parties could live with this season.
This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: Sorsby to challenge NFL ruling on his eligibility for the draft