Why the latest Brendan Sorsby news makes him a likelier target for the Dallas Cowboys down the road
The latest Brendan Sorsby update makes him ineligible to enter the NFL in 2026. And that alone makes him a likelier candidate for the Dallas Cowboys down the road.
Brendan Sorsby’s path to the NFL just got a lot longer and much blurrier. And I believe that makes the Dallas Cowboys a slightly likelier landing spot for him next year.
But before I get into why, please, allow me to catch you up on the Sorsby Saga in case you have missed it.
The Brendan Sorsby saga so far
Sorsby, the former Texas Tech quarterback, was granted an injunction by the Lubbock County Courthouse to restore his NCAA eligibility following sports gambling violations which included bets on Indiana as a quarterback for the Hoosiers. However, backlash led to him to declare for the NFL, which largely raised expectations for a 2026 supplemental draft.
The latter is not happening, though. As it turns out, the league holds the right to decide whether or not to have one in the first place. On Tuesday, the NFL announced that it wouldn’t hold a supplemental draft and it informed Sorsby in a letter that he’d have to wait until the 2027 NFL Draft for “possible” entry into the league.
The decision leaves Sorsby in a very uncomfortable place. He can’t head back to college football. And he has to wait until next April to be eligible to be picked by an NFL team. The timing is unlikely to help his chances of that happening next year—which makes his future much blurrier.
But for the purposes of Cowboys fans, I believe it at least puts him in play for Dallas.
Could the Cowboys target Sorsby in 2027?
To be honest, it’s difficult to know how any team will look at Sorsby’s betting history. So I don’t claim to know how the Cowboys will.
But before this latest development, it was really tough to envision the Cowboys bidding a 2027 pick for a chance at landing Sorsby in the supplemental draft (which features a bidding process and a lottery element to determine picks).
For starters, the Sorsby situation is a hot mess right now and I don’t think anyone wants anything to do with it. Hence the NFL’s decision to not even hold a supplemental draft. But if anyone was going to take the risk, it was probably going to be a quarterback-needy team desperate to take a swing. Maybe the Arizona Cardinals or the New York Jets, for instance. Or heck, maybe a team without a long-term plan at the position like the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But the Cowboys, armed with Dak Prescott, Sam Howell, and Joe Milton, were unlikely to gamble on a situation they had little time to figure out. Especially with a lower number of draft picks than usual and a lack of information on their own roster so far removed from the 2027 offseason.
But next year, with Prescott nearing 34 years old, Howell no longer under contract, and Milton potentially entering a contract year, everything could be in play at the position for Dallas. Maybe that includes Sorsby should he drop to Day 3 of the draft (if not undrafted free agency).
The Cowboys front office has a long history of making low-risk, high reward bets on player acquisitions. Sorsby could be that based on many evaluator’s view of him as a quarterback. Some considered him a potential first-round talent had he declared in 2026.
All that is clear to me right now is that he likely was off the table in 2026. But in 2027, I can’t rule him out as a Cowboys target.