{"id":743828,"date":"2026-06-18T05:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743828\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:36:14","slug":"qb-brendan-sorsbys-agent-not-expecting-nfl-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743828\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Brendan Sorsby’s Agent Not Expecting NFL Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the surprising news that Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby<\/a> would be withdrawing from his battle with the NCAA to enter the NFL\u2019s supplemental draft, Sorsby\u2019s agent, Ron Slavin, let loose some of the details that led to the shocking outcome. After Sorsby\u2019s crack legal team had put him in a position to remain eligible to play at least 10 games with the Red Raiders next year, Slavin\u2019s comments suggest that the school pushed Sorsby to head to the NFL.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In an appearance<\/a> on 105.3 The Fan, a sports radio show in Dallas, Slavin disclosed some of the details of how things went down. Ultimately, Slavin claims the decision to move on was the result of \u201ctoo much pressure from everybody else on Tech,\u201d though Sorsby still desired a run with the team.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: NFL Teams Accelerate Scouting Of Sorsby]<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis wasn\u2019t Brendan Sorsby not wanting to play college football,\u201d Slavin explained.\u00a0\u201cThis was Brendan Sorsby just being advised by the school that, \u2018I think it\u2019s time for you\u2019 \u2014 you know, we had seven days left to file for the supplemental draft and didn\u2019t know where this thing was gonna go. So, we won in court. We did our job on our side, but, for whatever reason, the world melted down like college football was ruined forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slavin hedged his language a bit, putting equal intention between Texas Tech and Sorsby, but the overall tone of the interview seemed to indicate that the university had gotten cold feet. Despite the legal victories Sorsby\u2019s team had achieved, Texas Tech began to feel negative pressure from the media and their own Big 12 conference. The school feared that the conference may opt to make an example of Sorsby and bar the entire team from participating in the conference championship or a potential playoff run. The Big 12 had filed suit against the Lubbock school, and the NCAA had requested an appeal<\/a> of the judge\u2019s injunction.<\/p>\n

With Sorsby now headed for the NFL, though, Slavin believes Sorsby should be spared the punishment of a suspension. While some may point to Terrelle Pryor<\/a>\u2018s situation in 2011, when the NFL enforced a five-game suspension previously levied by the NCAA before Pryor declared for the supplemental draft, Slavin is pointing to a more recent example.<\/p>\n

Slavin doesn\u2019t expect his client to receive a suspension once arriving in the NFL because the NFL did not suspend Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte<\/a> when it was uncovered that he utilized an alias to place about 8,900 wagers<\/a> \u2014 17 of which were believed to be on college football games, six of them LSU games \u2014 when he was 20 years old at LSU. The news came out after Boutte had already played a season in the NFL, but the league still investigated that matter even after the charges applied to Boutte had been dropped.<\/p>\n

Sorsby\u2019s situation seems to have similarities to both. Like Pryor, Sorsby was facing a two-game suspension when he declared for the supplemental draft, but Boutte\u2019s mistakes so clearly match Sorsby\u2019s. It will be interesting to see which precedent\u2019s the league will claim to follow when dealing with the incoming rookie prospect. According to Jason La Canfora of SportsBoom, sources seem to indicate that Sorsby will draw lots of interest<\/a> in the supplemental draft. It\u2019s believed some teams may try to grab him in the second round, but he certainly isn\u2019t expected to last past the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of the surprising news that Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby would be withdrawing from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,120276,593,85],"class_list":["post-743828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brendan-sorsby","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}