{"id":498526,"date":"2026-06-27T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498526\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:47:12","slug":"cfl-wont-allow-brendan-sorsby-to-sign-with-any-team-or-be-added-to-negotiation-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498526\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL won&#8217;t allow Brendan Sorsby to sign with any team or be added to negotiation lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Quarterback Brendan Sorsby, permanently ruled ineligible by the NCAA for sports betting, won&#8217;t be kick-starting his pro football career in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The CFL said Friday it won&#8217;t allow the 22-year-old to sign with any of its teams or be placed on their negotiation lists.<\/p>\n<p>Sorsby admitted to placing thousands of bets totaling nearly $90,000 over his collegiate career, including at least 40 on Indiana football while he was a freshman there in 2022, although none was on games in which he played for the Hoosiers that year.<\/p>\n<p>After being ruled permanently ineligible by the NCAA, Sorsby attempted to join the NFL&#8217;s supplemental draft, but the league <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-network-nfl-informs-teams-brendan-sorsby-it-won-t-hold-supplemental-draft-this-summer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told him<\/a> on Tuesday it wouldn&#8217;t hold one this year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the NFL told Sorsby to focus on preparing for possible entry into the league via its regular draft in 2027, according to a letter from the league telling Sorsby of its decision that was obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL hasn&#8217;t held a supplemental draft since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8212; Quarterback Brendan Sorsby, permanently ruled ineligible by the NCAA for sports betting, won&#8217;t be kick-starting his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6462,134,554,555,111,43,139,249210,69,249211],"class_list":["post-498526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-associated-press","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-no-minute","tag-nz","tag-offseason-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}