The NFL’s refusal to hold a supplemental draft has made Brendan Sorsby a man without a team. He could, in theory, attempt to play football elsewhere between now and the 2027 draft. His options, however, are limited. Sorsby could attempt to join the CFL. The regular season, however, has already begun (it started on June 4). If the CFL lets him in — apparently, no team has squatted on his negotiating rights — he’d be way behind the curve. It would be an uphill climb to get on the field in 2026. But it would give him the structure of a team. The routine of practices, meetings, etc. would restore normalcy after a two-month ride that has been anything but. He could also do what quarterback Hunter Dekkers did after permanently losing his NCAA eligibility for underage gambling and for betting on his own team while on the Iowa State roster but not playing. Dekkers spent the 2024 season playing for Iowa Western Community College before entering the 2025 draft. Sorsby also could explore playing for the UFL in its 2027 season. However, that would create an issue if/when he’s drafted next April; the UFL season runs into June. He’d either leave his UFL team prematurely, or he’d miss his NFL rookie minicamp and most of the offseason program. The best option for now could be to challenge the NFL’s failure to accept him into the supplemental draft in court. Attorney Jeffrey Kessler has already made his position on the NFL’s rejection of Sorsby clear. Sorsby, who likely incurred significant legal fees in connection with the successful (but abandoned) effort to play college football in 2026, may not be interested in throwing good money after bad. The next move is up to Sorsby. When it comes to other options for playing football, there aren’t many — and none are ideal. When it comes to fighting the NFL, it could get very expensive (and contentious) and he could spend a lot more money with no guarantee that he’ll prevail
If/when the NFL explores whether a Terrelle Pryor-style suspension should be imposed on quarterback Brendan Sorsby after the supplemental draft, the Kayshon Boutte precedent points to no punishment. The Hunter Dekkers precedent does, too. Dekkers, who re-signed with the Saints this week, missed the entire 2023 college football season after losing his NCAA eligibility for betting on one of his team’s games. With his NCAA eligibility permanently vacated, Dekkers played for Iowa Western Community College in 2024 before entering the draft. The NFL imposed no roadblocks to his professional career, before or after the 2025 draft. After going undrafted, Dekkers spent most of the 2025 season with the Saints. He played for the Houston Gamblers of the UFL in 2026. While at Iowa State, Dekkers had made more than 350 bets on his mother’s DraftKings account. In 2021, he made a $15 wager on Iowa State to beat Oklahoma State. Dekkers did not play in the game. He eventually pleaded guilty to underage gambling in Iowa. “I wasn’t throwing games, I wasn’t shaving points, and I would never do that,” Dekkers told ESPN last year, in the weeks before the 2025 draft. “There was never any intent behind any of these bets. We weren’t trying to make money. We were just treating it like a video game , in a sense.” That’s the basic reality of an age in which gambling has become legalized — and normalized. The ads are everywhere. It’s inescapable. Sports fans are constantly bombarded with picks and parlays and the presumption that betting is fun. It’s very easy for anyone to pick up a phone, open an app, and press a few buttons. Everyone can eat the forbidden fruit, expect the players who are watering the tree. There inevitably will be some that take a little taste, or more. Not to get rich. Just to chase that tiny thrill of vicarious victory. Dekkers obviously paid the price at the college level. Sorsby did, too. The NFL’s decision not to suspend Dekkers or Boutte should lead to the same result with Sorsby. There’s no guarantee it will. The five-game suspension of Terrelle Pryor still lingers, 15 years later. As to Sorsby, the league will do whatever it wants to do. Given what the NFL didn’t do to Kayshon Boutte and Hunter Dekkers, the NFL shouldn’t do anything to Brendan Sorsby
The New Orleans Saints re-signed DE Cam Jordan on yesterday and to make room for him on their roster, they made a few other corresponding moves. The team announced the signing off kicker Tanner Brown , wide receiver Jalen Cropper and quarterback Hunter Dekkers. They have also waived defensive tackle Coziah Izzard, defensive back DaShawn Jones, kicker Mason Shipley, and wide receiver Damien Alford (waived/injured). Be sure to stay tuned to Canal Street Chronicles for all the latest updates following today’s practice
The UFL special teams player of the year is now a member of the Saints. New Orleans announced the signing of kicker Tanner Brown on Wednesday. Brown won the award while helping Louisville to a league title and he became the first pro kicker in any league to hit a pair of field goals from at least 60 yards in one game. The Saints also signed quarterback Hunter Dekkers and wide receiver Jalen Moreno-Cropper. They played together for Houston during the 2026 UFL season and Dekkers spent last season on the practice squad in New Orleans. Moreno-Cropper played in three games for the Cowboys last season. Defensive tackle Coziah Izzard, cornerback Dashawn Jones, kicker Mason Shipley, and wide receiver Damien Alford were waived in corresponding moves
The UFL special teams player of the year is now a member of the Saints. New Orleans announced the signing of kicker Tanner Brown on Wednesday. Brown won the award while helping Louisville to a league title and he became the first pro kicker in any league to hit a pair of field goals from at least 60 yards in one game. The Saints also signed quarterback Hunter Dekkers and wide receiver Jalen Moreno-Cropper. They played together for Houston during the 2026 UFL season and Dekkers spent last season on the practice squad in New Orleans. Moreno-Cropper played in three games for the Cowboys last season. Defensive tackle Coziah Izzard, cornerback Dashawn Jones, kicker Mason Shipley, and wide receiver Damien Alford were waived in corresponding moves
If you haven’t heard the news, former Indiana, Cincinnati and now Texas Tech quarterback Bredan Sorsby has applied for the 2026 supplemental draft. Sorsby (and Tech) was previously fighting to remain eligible to play college football this year after the NCAA attempted to ban him from the sport after it was revealed that he had previously placed bets on the Hoosiers to win football games when he was the team’s backup quarterback. Now, there are a couple of questions that need to be answered about his situation moving forward. The NFL has taken in players who have done this in the past. One example is Hunter Dekkers , who was signed to the New Orleans Saints last offseason as a college free agent. Like Sorsby, Dekkers bet on his team, Iowa State, when he was a backup quarterback. The NCAA banned him, leading to Dekkers dropping down to the JuCo level for a year before going the professional route. What’s up in the air, though, is whether the NFL will allow Sorsby to enter the supplemental draft. Because the NFL is operating as a pseudo cartel, the league can’t legally ban a player before he ever steps foot in the league. Roger Goodell is going to have to put the decision on whether Sorsby is going to be an NFL player or not in the hands of general managers and owners across the league, eventually. It’s almost entirely up to the discretion of Goodell to decide whether or not a player should be included in the potential pool of supplemental draft prospects, though, so Goodell telling Sorsby that he’ll just need to be a member of the 2027 draft class and sit out this fall is completely on the table. Even if he is made eligible for the supplemental draft, the next question is going to be how long Sorsby will be suspended by the league, or if he’s suspended at all. In the past, Roger Goodell upheld the five-game suspension in the NFL that supplementary draft choice Terrelle Pryor was supposed to serve at the college level. Will it be a couple of games? Will it be Sorsby’s rookie season? Will there be no suspension at all? It’s all speculation at this point. What is known is that Sorsby does have legitimate NFL talent. Going into the 2026 draft cycle , Sorsby was consistently ranked as a top-100 selection, with the upside of potentially rising into the first round due to the weakness at the quarterback position in the class. Instead of declaring early, though, Sorsby returned to college and transferred from Cincinnati to Tech. He was generally considered to be the number one player in the transfer portal at his position this offseason. For those unaware of how the supplemental draft works, it’s a blind bid and teams bid an original draft choice from the 2027 draft that would essentially be consumed if they were awarded Sorsby as the highest bidder. If multiple teams place the highest bid, in terms of the round of draft pick they’d be willing to sacrifice, it would come down to a lottery draft order on who would receive the player. Teams are tiered into three groups: teams that lost six or fewer games the year prior, the remaining non-playoff teams and the playoff teams. Each of those three tiers essentially has its own draft lottery to determine the #1 to #32 order in each round for the supplemental draft. From a Green Bay Packers perspective, the supplemental draft bidding being limited to only original draft choices limits them somewhat. The Packers won’t be able to bid a first-round pick, due to the Micah Parsons trade, but they also wouldn’t be able to bid a sixth-round pick, due to the Darian Kinnard trade. The Packers haven’t quite solidified their backup quarterback position, considering the fact that they gave 36-year-old Tyrod Taylor a very modest one-year contract for a veteran QB2, and only did so after the 2026 draft concluded. On paper, Green Bay has a pretty low commitment to their backup quarterback position, both short-term and long-term, which has led some Packers fans to wonder whether the team will be in the
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As the UFL season concludes, several players are transitioning to the NFL. The Green Bay Packers have a history of signing UFL talent, with punter Daniel Whelan and kicker Lukas Havrisik being notable examples. Several other players have received tryouts or contracts with NFL teams, including WR Hakeem Butler (Denver Broncos), LB Tony Fields II (Chicago Bears), CB Sean Fresch Jr. (Denver Broncos), S Major Burns (Miami Dolphins), QB Hunter Dekkers (New Orleans Saints), RB Marcus Yarns (Denver Broncos), RB Kavon Latulas (Denver Broncos), RB Dae Dae Hunter (Denver Broncos), WR Denzel Mims (Dallas Cowboys), WR Tay Martin (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints), WR Antwane Wells (Atlanta Falcons), WR Jalen Moreno-Cropper (New Orleans Saints), WR Lawrence Keys (Denver Broncos), WR Cam Camper (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, New York Jets), WR Elijah Cooks (Chicago Bears), and OL Chris Glasier (Dallas Cowboys)
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