Texas Tech's Brendan Sorsby Schedules NFL Pro Day; Cowboys React To Draft Rumors

FRISCO - There is rumor and there is fact.

The Dallas Cowboys connection to Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby? That's a rumor.

Sorsby's connection to the NFL? That's now a fact.

The controversial quarterback has scheduled his own Pro Day for July 10 at Southlake Carroll High School in DFW - his hometown area - in anticipation of being selected in a special NFL Supplemental Draft.

The timing there will allow Sorsby to join his new team for its late-July training camp.

My statement: Jerry is far more attracted to "Sorsby The Story'' than he is "Sorsby the QB.''

The usual suspects who might be interested? Think of the bad teams without star QBs. That's the Jets, the Browns, the Cardinals, the Dolphins and their ilk.

But what about owner Jerry Jones' Cowboys?

Sorsby, having essentially been driven away from college football due to his gambling problem, is a headline issue.

And Jerry Jones loves those headlines.

As it happens, Jones spoke with Yahoo’s Jori Epstein at the league meetings last month and was asked about the situation.

As Epstein wrote it on Twitter/X at the time: “I asked Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones last week whether he’d want the NFL to hold a supplemental draft for Brendan Sorsby. He said he didn’t know Sorsby’s details, but, in general: ‘I do like the supplemental draft. Especially where we are. The sooner to today that we can get as many good ones on the field, that’s a plus for us. Cause I’m in that mood.’”

I don't blame the uninitiated for guessing that Jones is hinting at a sincere interest in Sorsby on the part of the Cowboys, who are presently led by Dak Prescott as he enters Year 11 in the NFL and is about to turn 33 next month.

Indeed, one national website writes, "Owner Jerry Jones. ... suggested a willingness to put in a bid for quarterback Brendan Sorsby.''

But in fact, Jones did no such thing. All he did was say he "likes the supplemental draft'' (which means nothing) while admitting the truth: He doesn't know a darn thing about Sorsby.

What we do know: Sorsby transferred from Cincinnati to Texas Tech ahead of the upcoming season, and was paid $5 million in NIL money to do so. But his long-standing gambling problem was then revealed, and after a brief fight regarding a suspension by the NCAA, Sorsby is leaving college and hoping to get taken in the supplemental draft.

Some say Sorsby should be projected as having first-round potential. But the truth there was revealed here at The Star on Tuesday as the Cowboys launched into a minicamp with coach Brian Schottenheimer fielding a Sorsby-related question.

"I know just enough to be dangerous,'' the coach joked, adding, “I know it’s a big storyline. I haven’t followed it much, so I really don’t have any honest opinions ... If we get to the point where we’re interested then certainly I’ll have an opinion.

"But as of now, it doesn’t affect my life. I’m focused on the 90 guys we have here.”

That's the truth.

Sorsby's history of gambling (he's receiving in-patient gambling addiction treatment earlier in the spring) will scare off some teams. A possible NFL suspension could do the same.

And as I've written before, having surveyed NFL scouts: It's too early to insist that he's worthy of a high draft pick.

Bottom line: The idea of Dallas drafting Sorsby as an Dak insurance policy/future flier is worth monitoring. ... but the Cowboys haven't really formulated any serious thoughts there.

What has been formulated - aside from the headlines - is Sorsby's path back onto the field ... which starts on July 10 back here in DFW.