Will Miami Target Brendan Sorsby?

Will Miami Target Brendan Sorsby?

Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has officially put in a request to enter the 2026 NFL Supplemental Draft. He was eligible for the regular draft that happened in April, but opted to play for the Red Raiders in his final year of eligibility. Earlier in May, he checked himself into a rehab facility for gambling and admitted to placing bets on active college football events when he was a member of the Indiana Hoosiers football team.

Many teams were interested in Sorsby before he opted to return to school. With the addition of his off-field issues and college football debacle, I’m sure many have scratched him entirely off the board. Does Miami have any interest in the signal caller?

There’s no real evidence for or against it, but to recall what new general manager Jon Eric Sullivan said, Miami will always try to select a quarterback in the draft. If not the present year, then the next one. Technically, the supplemental draft works with the following year’s draft capital. If any team puts up a bid for Sorsby, for example, a 3rd-round pick, it will count as the 2027 3rd-round pick that the team possesses in their name.

Miami’s current quarterback room consists of Malik Willis, Quinn Ewers, Cam Miller and Mark Gronowski. Willis is the starter for 2027; there is no doubt about that. The team has high regard for last year’s 3-game starter, Quinn Ewers. Cam Miller and Mark Gronowski will battle for the “QB3” spot, if Miami even chooses to carry a 3rd quarterback on the active roster. Sorsby undeniably has better tools and collegiate film than Miller or Gronowski.

The league must be low, all things considered, on Sorsby. There is no way to gauge the interest or how high of a draft pick he will be bid up to, but it’s easy to assume it will be between rounds 5 and 7.

Miami has the chance to buy low on an uber-talented player and stash him deep on the roster while he develops. Does this even have a remote chance of occurring?

Yes.

Based on the ideologies of the new regime and the current roster outlook of all other teams across the league, the Dolphins are in the thick of it when it comes to expendable draft capital on the quarterback position. But there is a drawback to the supplemental draft process: it hasn’t occurred since 2023, and the last player was selected in 2019. The draft will happen at the end of July.