Brendan Sorsby’s NFL Draft Gamble Gets Messier

Brendan Sorsby is about to give NFL teams one of the strangest quarterback evaluations they’ve had in years.

The former Texas Tech quarterback has filed for the supplemental draft, and while his arm talent and athletic profile will absolutely get attention, this isn’t some clean, easy projection.

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According to Zac Wassink with YardBarker, it’s messy. Really messy.

Sorsby has enough physical tools to make teams pause. He’s tough, mobile, creative outside the pocket and comfortable playing the kind of option-based football that has become more useful in the modern NFL.

That’s why the Jaxson Dart comparison is going to follow him all the way through the process.

The Athletic’s Ted Nguyen recently described Sorsby as stylistically similar to Dart, calling both players “tough, athletic option quarterbacks” who prefer working outside the numbers.

But Nguyen also made the key distinction: Dart was the more polished prospect, especially throwing deep, and he didn’t carry the same off-field baggage.

That’s the entire problem for Sorsby.

Dart became a first-round pick when the New York Giants took him at No. 25 in the 2025 NFL Draft. Sorsby may have some of the same creative traits, but he isn’t walking into the league with Dart’s resume, accuracy profile or clean evaluation.

Nguyen viewed Sorsby more like a developmental second-round type on talent alone, while also noting that the off-field situation will hurt his stock.

ESPN’s Ben Solak drilled into the on-field concerns, too.

His biggest issue wasn’t creativity. It was consistency. Solak noted that Sorsby can get too casual with his mechanics, throwing flat-footed or changing arm angles when he doesn’t need to.

That leads to what Solak called a “worrying grab bag of ball locations.”

Translation: the talent is real, but the ball doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to go.

Then there’s the gambling cloud. Dane Brugler of The Athletic called Sorsby’s projection “unprecedented” because of that issue and suggested a Day 3 pick may be the more realistic outcome.

Any team that selects him would also have to surrender the matching pick in next year’s NFL Draft, adding another layer of risk.

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The Cleveland Browns reportedly aren’t expected to be involved, and other teams may leak similar distance before the supplemental draft arrives.

Sorsby will get drafted only if a team believes the upside is worth the noise. Right now, that’s the question: are NFL teams seeing a future starter, or just a talented project with too many complications?

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