{"id":760569,"date":"2026-06-26T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:48:16","slug":"its-look-less-and-less-likely-that-brendan-sorsby-will-be-suing-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760569\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s look less and less likely that Brendan Sorsby will be suing the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been two days since the NFL told quarterback Brendan Sorsby that it won\u2019t be conducting a supplemental draft next month. Despite his lawyer, Jeffrey Kessler, issuing a bellicose statement<\/a> suggesting that a legal challenge is coming, nothing has happened.<\/p>\n

With each passing hour, it\u2019s becoming less and less likely that anything will.<\/p>\n

If Sorsby sues, he\u2019ll seek prompt relief aimed at forcing the NFL to conduct a supplemental draft next month. Kessler will want to move quickly, in order to get a date in place for a supplemental draft and to allow interested teams to properly scrutinize him.<\/p>\n

If Kessler will be asking a judge to move quickly, Kessler needs to move quickly, too.<\/p>\n

Beyond the practical realities of waiting to file paperwork and to schedule a hearing for a temporary restraining order and\/or a preliminary injunction, a judge could react to a supposedly urgent request to conduct a hearing ASAFP by asking a simple question \u2014 what took you so long to initiate the process?<\/p>\n

The paperwork could have been filed by Wednesday. If it\u2019s not filed by the close of business on Friday, our guess is that it won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

Which could be the best outcome for Sorsby. The league office doesn\u2019t want him in the NFL this year. If he sues and win, the NFL may hold a grudge. (It wouldn\u2019t be the first time.)<\/p>\n

Many in the court of public opinion want a pound of flesh. If Sorsby doesn\u2019t play in 2026, they will have gotten it.<\/p>\n

Regardless, if he\u2019s going to sue, it\u2019s getting late. The clock is ticking. As soon as tomorrow, it could be too late.<\/p>\n

Frankly, it already may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been two days since the NFL told quarterback Brendan Sorsby that it won\u2019t be conducting a supplemental…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-760569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760569","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=760569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}