{"id":763487,"date":"2026-06-26T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763487\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:27:10","slug":"cfl-not-allowing-sorsby-to-join-any-of-its-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763487\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL not allowing Sorsby to join any of its teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby watches the school’s NFL pro day earlier this year in Lubbock, Texas.Annie Rice\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Quarterback Brendan Sorsby, permanently ruled ineligible by the NCAA for sports betting, won\u2019t be kick-starting his pro football career in Canada.<\/p>\n

The CFL announced Friday it won\u2019t allow the Texas Tech quarterback to sign with any of its teams or be placed on their negotiation lists.<\/p>\n

Sorsby admitted to placing thousands of bets totalling nearly US$90,000 over his collegiate career, including at least 40 on Indiana football while he was a freshman there in 2022, although none were on games in which he played for the Hoosiers that year.<\/p>\n

After being ruled permanently ineligible by the NCAA, Sorsby attempted to join the NFL\u2019s supplemental draft, but the league told him it wouldn\u2019t hold one this year.<\/p>\n

Instead, the NFL reportedly told Sorsby to focus on preparing for possible entry into the league via its regular draft in 2027. <\/p>\n

The NFL hasn\u2019t held a supplemental draft since 2023<\/p>\n

\u201cUpholding the integrity of the league and ensuring fair competition are paramount to the CFL,\u201d the CFL said in a statement. \u201cThe allegations involving Brendan Sorsby are serious and concerning.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time, the CFL will not register a contract for him, and no team will be permitted to add him to its negotiation list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby watches the school’s NFL pro day earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,521,875,522,520,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-763487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadian-news","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}