Brendan Sorsby, a Texas Tech quarterback, sued the NCAA to be declared eligible to practice and play for the Red Raiders during his 2026 senior season. Sorsby entered a residential treatment program for gambling addiction and would be away from the team for an indefinite period. The lawsuit claims the NCAA breached contractual commitments and unfairly enforced gambling bylaws related to wagers placed while he was a student-athlete dealing with compulsive addiction. The filing requests temporary and permanent injunctive relief preventing the NCAA from interfering with his ability to fully participate in team activities in 2026. If he is not reinstated, he plans to enter the NFL supplemental draft, which would end remaining college eligibility.
"A lawsuit filed Monday in Texas' Lubbock County District Court requests that Sorsby be declared eligible for all team activities because the NCAA "failed to comply with its contractual commitments" to him as a student-athlete and therefore "is precluded from enforcing its gambling bylaws against Mr. Sorsby to deny or withhold his reinstatement.""
"The filing also asks for "temporary and permanent injunctive relief enjoining the NCAA from interfering with his ability to practice, play, and participate fully as a member of the Texas Tech football team for the 2026 season.""
"If he remains ineligible for college football, Sorsby may enter the NFL supplemental draft this summer. Athletes who enter that draft forfeit all remaining college eligibility."
""The relief is narrow: one student-athlete and one senior season," the filing states. "The NCAA will suffer no cognizable harm from letting Mr. Sorsby play football while this case proceeds. But if this Court does not act, no future judgment can give Mr. Sorsby what the NCAA will have taken from him.""
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