Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby in gambling rehab.

[Adrian]

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All 32 NFL teams expected to attend Brendan Sorsby's Pro Day, per
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His Pro Day is scheduled for July 10.

 

[splitsecond]

I don’t care about his gambling problem. I’ve seen him play. He’s completely overhyped. The Big 12 embarrassed themselves crying about a guy who would have lost 3-4 games min this season at Tech. He went 7-5 in his best season at Cincinnati. Just embarrassing how much people have obsessed over a very very mid talent.

 

[Adrian]

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The #Steelers are reportedly “doing their homework” on QB Brendan Sorsby, who will be available in the upcoming supplemental draft

 

[602 Native]

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The #Steelers are reportedly “doing their homework” on QB Brendan Sorsby, who will be available in the upcoming supplemental draft

They do love drafting QBs with character issues.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

I don’t care about his gambling problem. I’ve seen him play. He’s completely overhyped. The Big 12 embarrassed themselves crying about a guy who would have lost 3-4 games min this season at Tech. He went 7-5 in his best season at Cincinnati. Just embarrassing how much people have obsessed over a very very mid talent.

You'll care when he's on your team, makes one stupid bet and gets suspended for 2 years.

 

[Adrian]

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[oaken1]

Well, the odds are good, but the goods are odd...

when did we change the topic to dating?

 

[oaken1]

This is why any team willing to give up anything higher than a 4th is DAF. Give up a 1st or 2nd and that amount of money for a dude who can be suspended for 2 years with one slip up? No freaking way!

next thing ya know teams will be giving guys like that 240mil guaranteed contracts...
oh, wait..

 

[oaken1]

No offense intended but I think those of you suggesting using a second round pick or later to take Sorsby are missing the target. The Rams I believe have given us the answer.

Here’s a hypothetical for you. You’re the GM of team that expects to compete for a playoff spot in 2026. You do not have a certain QB starter for 2027 either due to age or contract status. You’re likely to end up in the lower half of the 2027 draft order. The chances of drafting a successful QB that low are slim. So when you get a shot at a possible top QB, I bet you take it. Just like the Rams did in 2025.

I may be the only one predicting it, but I think he goes round 1!

i could see the jets making that move with their abundance of first round picks... thinking they can then get something like LT1 and Pass Rusher 2 with their other picks... if it works out they could jump their team into contender status pretty quickly

 

[oaken1]

Harry, I'm not saying someone won't use a 1st...but I am saying it would be foolish to do so. He's an addict, who with one small slip up will be suspended for 2 years!!!! If he had gotten caught/busted as a freshman and now had 2+ years of good, honest behavior under his belt, maybe you give him a shot...but this just isn't the case with Soresby. He's literally fresh out of rehab with zero track record of being able to successfully deal with his addiction. Using any day 1 or day 2 draft capital on this kid is a fools errand, at best.

or...stay with me here...

the kid is not in fact a gambling addict... he just made a stupid decision and got caught...happens to young people all the time...

however,...when the law gets involved...every lawyer out there tells their client to go to rehab, they play the addict card to garner sympathy from the court....because, "addict"..."he has a disease"..."it wasnt his fault".... and they play for leniency...

I had some legal trouble once involving cocain and LSD....and my lawyer enrolled me in NA classes before he ever even met with me... its a common play in the legal playbook...

so maybe we aint dealing with a habitual gambler, just a ******* kid that didnt think it would be a big deal if he placed a couple 20 dollar bets.
but then he got caught

 

[Brian in Mesa]

The contract became moot when MO decided he would invest more time in him after his ACL.

After that it was his problem to own and he has continued to show he doesn't know what he is doing.

I campaigned for them to get a QB in the third (Beck/Simpson) didn't matter to me. We will see if either is the guy. I have more faith in Beck do to him doing it on a bigger stage and longer in college. Both are fliers however.

MO Sucks

We couldn't move off the contract until we did. JG and MO were stuck with KM when they took their respective jobs with the Cards.

 

[gimpy]

or...stay with me here...

the kid is not in fact a gambling addict... he just made a stupid decision and got caught...happens to young people all the time...

however,...when the law gets involved...every lawyer out there tells their client to go to rehab, they play the addict card to garner sympathy from the court....because, "addict"..."he has a disease"..."it wasnt his fault".... and they play for leniency...

I had some legal trouble once involving cocain and LSD....and my lawyer enrolled me in NA classes before he ever even met with me... its a common play in the legal playbook...

so maybe we aint dealing with a habitual gambler, just a ******* kid that didnt think it would be a big deal if he placed a couple 20 dollar bets.
but then he got caught

From what I've read on here, Soresby didn't make just a couple of $20 bets. He made somewhere around $90,000 worth of bets over the last 4 or 5 years.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

From what I've read on here, Soresby didn't make just a couple of $20 bets. He made somewhere around $90,000 worth of bets over the last 4 or 5 years.

I heard today that it was over 9,000 individual bets in a short period of time.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

or...stay with me here...

the kid is not in fact a gambling addict... he just made a stupid decision and got caught...happens to young people all the time...

however,...when the law gets involved...every lawyer out there tells their client to go to rehab, they play the addict card to garner sympathy from the court....because, "addict"..."he has a disease"..."it wasnt his fault".... and they play for leniency...

I had some legal trouble once involving cocain and LSD....and my lawyer enrolled me in NA classes before he ever even met with me... its a common play in the legal playbook...

so maybe we aint dealing with a habitual gambler, just a ******* kid that didnt think it would be a big deal if he placed a couple 20 dollar bets.
but then he got caught

$90k in bets. Yeah, it's a problem.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

I heard today that it was over 9,000 individual bets in a short period of time.

And $90k.

 

[Adrian]

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[RON_IN_OC]

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[RON_IN_OC]

Best tweet.

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[daves]

This guy is a scumbag who bet the unders against his own teammates.

Well betting the unders isn't really betting against your teammates, it's just betting on a low-scoring game. It's pro-defense and anti-offense I guess.

Regardless, has this been reported anywhere? Your post is the first I've seen anything more than that he bet "on his own team's games" before he was on the active roster. I haven't previously seen anything about the nature of his bets.

Not that it makes much difference in the grand scheme....

 

[GatorAZ]

Well betting the unders isn't really betting against your teammates, it's just betting on a low-scoring game. It's pro-defense and anti-offense I guess.

Regardless, has this been reported anywhere? Your post is the first I've seen anything more than that he bet "on his own team's games" before he was on the active roster. I haven't previously seen anything about the nature of his bets.

Not that it makes much difference in the grand scheme....

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https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48909854/sorsby-placed-least-40-bets-indiana-football-hoosiers-qb

 

[daves]

so maybe we aint dealing with a habitual gambler, just a ******* kid that didnt think it would be a big deal if he placed a couple 20 dollar bets.

He didn't place "a couple of 20 dollar bets" - he placed more than 9,000 bets totaling at least $90,000, including 40 bets on his own team. In his own words: "What started small when I was in high school turned into a daily habit of betting on all kinds of sports, including some sports that I didn't follow and had no interest in like tennis and Romanian soccer. Gambling became an addiction."

Betting on Romanian soccer tells me that he is in fact an addict and that this was no legal ploy to garner sympathy (which not only failed, but would've been a poor strategy as I suspect that NFL teams should be far more afraid of trusting an addict than someone who convincingly claimed, "I was making millions in NIL money; it was just pocket change to me and I just did it because I was bored. But I know it's against the rules and would never jeopardize my career again in that way, so I have no problem giving it up.").

 

[daves]

This guy is a scumbag who bet the unders against his own teammates. We have enough problems as it is.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48909854/sorsby-placed-least-40-bets-indiana-football-hoosiers-qb

Yeah, that doesn't say anything about him betting "unders" or betting against his teammates. In fact, the quote in the last paragraph below strongly suggests that he only bet FOR his team or teammates:

Between Sept. 2 and Oct. 22, 2022, Sorsby made at least 40 wagers on Indiana football and/or individual members of the team. According to the documents, the bets ranged from $1 to $114 and totaled at least $850.

Sorsby redshirted during the 2022 season and was a scout team quarterback. He didn't compete in games during the period in which he made bets on the Hoosiers. The wagers stopped two weeks before he made his debut against Penn State on Nov. 5, 2022.

In a May 16 statement to NCAA reinstatement staff, Sorsby wrote that the "bets made me feel like I was supporting the team when I was not playing in games, much like fans betting on their hometown teams to win. It was a way to make me feel more connected to my team when I wasn't playing. I always bet on Indiana to succeed."

 

[GatorAZ]

Yeah, that doesn't say anything about him betting "unders" or betting against his teammates. In fact, the quote in the last paragraph below strongly suggests that he only bet FOR his team or teammates:

Idc what he said. If you’re using family members names to place bets you know what you were doing was wrong.
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[some dumb guy]

He didn't place "a couple of 20 dollar bets" - he placed more than 9,000 bets totaling at least $90,000, including 40 bets on his own team. In his own words: "What started small when I was in high school turned into a daily habit of betting on all kinds of sports, including some sports that I didn't follow and had no interest in like tennis and Romanian soccer. Gambling became an addiction."

Betting on Romanian soccer tells me that he is in fact an addict and that this was no legal ploy to garner sympathy (which not only failed, but would've been a poor strategy as I suspect that NFL teams should be far more afraid of trusting an addict than someone who convincingly claimed, "I was making millions in NIL money; it was just pocket change to me and I just did it because I was bored. But I know it's against the rules and would never jeopardize my career again in that way, so I have no problem giving it up.").

Wait a minute....maybe the Romanian soccer team was hot when he made that bet...

 

[Vacard]

I dont think he’s even better then a healthy Beck. And certainly not worth the risk.