With quarterback Brendan Sorsby applying for the NFL supplemental draft, NFL teams are applying elbow grease in an effort to evaluate Sorsby.
Appearing Wednesday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, agent Ron Slavin said 26 teams have contacted him since Sorsby’s plan to leave Texas Tech came to light.
“Twenty-two between General Managers and college scouting directors reached out yesterday and then four more already this morning,” Slavin said. “And I know [coach] Joey [McGuire’s] getting a ton of phone calls at Tech. Like I said, there aren’t a lot of guys walking around 6'3", 235 [pounds] and can move like him and throw it like him.”
What are they asking?
“I mean, the questions are just, you know, ‘What really happened here?’” Slavin said. “Because I will give the NFL credit there. The media can give people, you know, an opinion but it isn’t the tell-all. So they’re gonna do their due diligence. They all have companies that work for them that can, you know, find out everything they need to find out anyway. The reality is most of the questions, you know, are, ‘What does he weigh in? What would he run?’ You know, it’s more football-related than the character stuff just because, again, they’re gonna do their digging on that side of it.”
They’ll all dig. Great quarterbacks are not easy to find. If someone decides Sorsby could be the real deal, they’ll want to add him — if they can get to the right level of comfort regarding the gambling addiction that prematurely ended his time in college football.
