Brendan Sorsby’s path to the NFL just got a little more interesting. The quarterback declared for the 2026 Supplemental Draft last week, but according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the real story might not be about which desperate team grabs him. It could be about a team nobody has talked about at all.
Schefter broke down the situation on NFL Live, explaining that Sorsby’s application is now sitting on Roger Goodell’s desk. The commissioner has to officially approve and schedule the Supplemental Draft before anything happens. That memo hasn’t gone out yet, but everyone around the league assumes it will.
Sorsby is already acting like it’s a done deal. He’s got a Pro Day scheduled for July 10 at a Texas high school. That’s how you know a player is confident. He’s not waiting around for permission.
Where Does Sorsby Actually Land?
The buzz is that Sorsby goes somewhere in the second or third round. That feels right for a guy with his college résumé — big arm, some mobility, plenty of tape that shows both flashes and flaws. But Schefter threw a curveball when he suggested the team that takes him might not be one of the obvious quarterback-needy franchises.
“Everybody knows the teams that need quarterbacks, the drafted quarterbacks in this previous draft in April,” Schefter said. “It might be a certain other team that hasn’t spent a lot of time and hasn’t been a lot of speculation about that team’s quarterback position that could go ahead and take Brendan Sorsby.”
So we’re looking at a team that didn’t draft a QB in April. Ten teams did. That leaves 22 others. The Cowboys come to mind, given the questions around Dak Prescott’s long-term situation. The Texans have C.J. Stroud but no real backup plan. The Vikings are still figuring out life after Kirk Cousins. None of those are the sexy rumor mill teams. That’s exactly the point Schefter is making.
It’s the kind of move that would make the draft talking heads scramble. A team with a decent starter using a mid-round pick on a developmental quarterback? That happens in April all the time. But in the Supplemental Draft, it reads differently. It feels like a chess move.
For Sorsby, it doesn’t matter who calls his name. He just needs one team to believe. And according to Schefter, there’s at least one out there that nobody has bothered to track yet. That’s a story worth watching until Goodell makes it official.
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