Former NFL quarterback and receiver Terrelle Pryor’s name recently has been mentioned in connection with the Brendan Sorsby’s case. He’ll now be mentioned for a different reason.
Pryor, via WPXI, was arrested last month near Pittsburgh for drug possession.
After police in Monroeville pulled over a Mercedes that was speeding on May 24, they noticed Pryor lying in the back seat in an “odd” way and breathing heavily. A rifle was on the floor of the back seat.
When Pryor removed his wallet to show authorities his concealed carry permit, police noticed a baggie of a powdery substance that was suspected to be MDMA.
A third-round pick in the 2011 supplemental draft, Pryor spent three years with the Raiders at quarterback. Out of football in 2014 after being released in late August by the Seahawks, Pryor returned in 2015 as a receiver with the Browns. He spent two years in Cleveland and one in Washington. In the 2018 season, he played for the Jets and the Bills.
In 2016, Pryor had 1,007 receiving yards with the Browns on 77 catches.
Pryor left Ohio State for the supplemental draft after being suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season for selling memorabilia and trading autographs for tattoos. The NFL duplicated the five-game suspension, under the reasoning that he manipulated NFL eligibility rules.
In upholding the suspension, Commissioner Roger Goodell found that Pryor left OSU “in order to avoid the consequences of his conduct while in college -- conduct to which he had admitted and for which he had accepted a suspension -- and to hasten the day when he could pursue a potentially lucrative professional career in the NFL.”
That outcome has raised questions as to whether the NFL would embrace Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, if he had failed to secure a court order restoring his eligibility for 2026 and had entered the 2026 supplemental draft. That’s currently a moot point, unless Sorsby decides (given the storm of criticism and scrutiny that has emerged in the wake of his win) to withdraw his challenge to the NCAA’s ruling and enter the supplemental draft.
The deadline is June 22.
