Folks connecting dots have not too long ago prompt that the Pittsburgh Steelers might take a flier on controversial quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who formally filed paperwork
to enter this 12 months’s supplemental draft for the NFL on Tuesday.
Throughout the newest version of the “Yinziders” podcast, Steelers reporter Mike DeFabo of The Athletic revealed that the membership hasn’t fully closed the door on buying Sorsby later this summer time.
Brendan Sorsby’s playing historical past not a “disqualifier” for Steelers?
“It feels like proper now the Steelers are at present doing their homework,” DeFabo mentioned about Sorsby, per Ross McCorkle of Steelers Depot. “It feels like that might, at this level, not routinely be a disqualifier for the Steelers.”
DeFabo was referencing how Sorsby beforehand checked right into a residential therapy program to take care of a gambling addiction and has admitted to playing on Indiana games, together with different sporting occasions, when he was with that college. Whereas some think sure gamers can have an issue accepting Sorsby as a part of the locker room, it however appears likely {that a} staff will settle for the danger related to grabbing him.
Taking Sorsby within the supplemental draft would value Pittsburgh its corresponding decide in subsequent 12 months’s NFL Draft. In response to Michael David Smith of Professional Soccer Speak, the supplemental draft will happen “on or earlier than July 16.”
“At this level,” DeFabo added in regards to the Steelers’ curiosity in Sorsby, “it appears they’re nonetheless in that strategy of gathering extra info and making an attempt to determine what precisely, and the way far precisely, they’d be keen to go.”
In response to a number of reviews, the Cleveland Browns will not attempt to land Sorsby subsequent month.
When might the Steelers take Brendan Sorsby within the supplemental draft?
Properly-known draft guru Dane Brugler of The Athletic not too long ago said that his “finest guess is a staff makes use of a Day 3 decide on Sorsby.” In response to Matthew Marczi of Steelers Depot, Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Publish-Gazette mentioned on the newest version of the “Steelers Collective” program that the membership would not spend larger than a fifth-round alternative on Sorsby.
“I’ll say Brendan Sorsby won’t find yourself with the Steelers,” Fittipaldo added. “But when they did, I believe it could be a fifth-round decide.”
Together with future Corridor of Famer Aaron Rodgers, the Steelers have longtime backup Mason Rudolph, 2025 rookie Will Howard and 2026 third-round draft decide Drew Allar of their quarterback room. There has to this point been no indication that head coach Mike McCarthy is prepared to surrender on Howard or Allar, neither of whom has taken a single in-game regular-season snap as a professional.
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