Blow the horns and bang the drums. For the first time any of us can remember, the NFL made a clairvoyant decision that prevented it from looking incredibly flat-footed months or years later regarding its own integrity. Unlike the reactionary era of constantly vacillating player punishments based on the temperature of public reaction and whatever happened to be caught on video (which made the league look weak), or the acceptance era of allowing gambling to flow into its bloodstream and connect the league with the inevitable barnacle populace of conspiracy theorists (which made the league look greedy), the decision to cut off the Brendan Sorsby spectacle before it turned into one was brilliant, protective and absolutely necessary.
In case you missed it, the league dissolved the 2026 supplemental draft entirely, citing specifically in a letter to Sorsby and his candidacy “issues presented by your Petition [that are] are too significant, and too closely tied to the League’s core integrity interests, to permit meaningful review within the timeline presented."
