Seahawks among teams attending Brendan Sorsby's pro day, report says

Could the Seahawks have interest in controversial Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who it was revealed Monday will be available to NFL teams via a supplemental draft later this summer?

The first thought, of course, is that the Seahawks don’t have the need with 29-year-old Sam Darnold set as the starter for years to come, and Drew Lock and Jalen Milroe under contract as backups, the latter drafted in the third round only a year ago.

But if a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Wednesday is taken literally, then the Seahawks will be in attendance at Sorsby’s pro day next month, seeming set to get an in-person view at an intriguing prospect at the most valuable position in the game.

The pro day is reportedly July 10 at Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas.

“I called a few teams today, and I’d expect all 32 to go, Thamel said during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show. “Every NFL team, because it’s a quarterback, because there’s some ambiguity around him, and because the supplemental draft is like a blind pick — I think you’d be foolish if you didn’t (show up).

“… I talked to Ron Slavin from Lift Management, who’s Sorsby’s agent, today. He said he’s talked to 23 GMs already. He expects all 32 to be there. I talked to four or five teams (and) it’s more of like, 'How many do we send?' than, ‘Are we going to send anyone to see Brendan?’"

It was revealed Monday that Sorsby intended to apply for the supplemental draft by Monday’s deadline instead of sitting through a summer of uncertainty about his college eligibility for the 2026 season at Texas Tech.

As reported by ESPN, Sorsby “had been ruled ineligible by the NCAA after it discovered he had placed more than 9,000 bets, totaling at least $90,000, on professional and college sports over four years while enrolled at Indiana, Cincinnati and Texas Tech.’’

A Texas judge granted Sorsby an injunction to play this season after serving a punishment of sitting out the first two games. The Big 12 Conference was fighting that ruling, and with questions swirling, Sorsby decided to head to the NFL.

Thamel reporting that Slavin said every team will be in attendance might be viewed as an agent also simply doing his job to pump up his client, especially given Sorsby’s circumstances.

Slavin is well known to the Seahawks, representing a handful of players in the past and currently representing defensive tackle Byron Murphy II.

After drafting Murphy in 2024, Schneider said: “We have a great working relationship with his agent."

So, the Seahawks attending Sorsby’s pro day could have multiple benefits of practicing their proverbial “due diligence" in making sure they know everything they need to about Sorsby while doing some networking.

Sorsby’s talent is certainly worth investigating.

Some scouts speculated he would have been the second QB taken in the 2026 draft last April had he been available.

Wrote longtime NFL draft analyst Rob Rang of Fox Sports: “At a solid 6-foot-3, 235 pounds, Sorsby certainly looks the part of an NFL quarterback. And he possesses both the arm and athleticism to star at the highest level, as well. In today’s era of simplified offenses, statistics can certainly be misleading. Sorsby’s numbers speak for themselves, however. He completed 61.4% of his passes for 7,208 yards and 60 touchdowns against 18 interceptions over 35 combined games at Cincinnati (2024-25) and Indiana (2022-23) while rushing for another 1,295 yards and 22 touchdowns."

So, despite the gambling issues leading to Sorsby heading to the supplemental draft — which is used for players whose college eligibility changes or runs out after the regular draft — he appears likely to become the first player taken in the supplemental draft since 2019.

The supplemental draft works a bit differently than the regular one.

As explained by Yahoo Sports, in an effort to determine selection order, the NFL “separates all 32 teams into three distinct tiers based on the previous season's results. A weighted lottery is then used to determine the exact order within each tier.

Tier one is teams that had six or fewer wins in 2025; tier two is the remaining non-playoff teams; tier three is all playoff teams.

Teams bid the round of pick they are willing to use on a player, a pick they would give up in the regular 2027 draft. If more than one team bids the same round, the tier system is used to break ties.

The Seahawks have their own picks in every round for next year except the fourth (traded to get the pick the Seahawks used on guard Beau Stephens) and are expected to get up to five more compensatory picks.

So, the Seahawks have the ammo to take a gamble.

As noted up top, they don’t seem to have the need. Darnold is under contract for two more years but widely expected to get an extension next year that could keep him with the team into the next decade. Lock, a trusted backup, is entering the final season of his contract, and Milroe is entering the second season of his four-year rookie deal.

The Seahawks won’t keep four quarterbacks on their 53-man roster in 2026, so drafting Sorsby would mean either getting rid of Lock, which financially is more than doable since he has no guaranteed money left on his contract, or probably attempting to trade Milroe.

Cutting Lock would leave the Seahawks with two untested QBs behind Darnold in a year when they have a chance to become only the 10th team to repeat as Super Bowl champs.

It would also seem to send a weird message about the team’s future at quarterback.

Milroe was drafted before Darnold had played a game for the Seahawks and led them to a Super Bowl win. Now that Darnold has proved emphaticallythat he is a QB a franchise can build a Super Bowl-winning team around, they wouldn’t need to make much of an investment in a young backup, at least as long as Milroe is around.

But making the trip and taking a look just in case? There’s certainly no harm in that.

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