Add The New York Post on Google Brendan Sorsby is seemingly giving up on the chance to play college football this season.
The controversial QB, embroiled in the fallout from a gambling scandal, will enter the NFL Supplemental Draft instead of trying to remain eligible to compete for Texas Tech this season, according to ESPN.
Sorsby is currently eligible to do so after a Texas judge granted him a preliminary injunction against the NCAA, which ruled the former Cincinnati QB could not play after admitting to a gambling addiction that started during his freshman year at Indiana in 2022.
Brendan Sorsby will forgo trying to continue to play college football and head to the NFL. Getty Images Sorsby is said to have placed more than 9,000 bets totalling over $90,000 with at least 40 made on the Indiana Hoosiers while he was a member of the team.
The hearing was set to take place on Feb. 8, 2027 — two weeks after the college football season ended. But on Monday, the NCAA demanded a definitive decision be made by the day before the start of the season.
That will no longer be needed with Sorsby opting to go to the pro route instead of seeing the legal battle through.
