PFT PM: What's next for Brendan Sorsby?
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Mike Florio (@profootball talk) discusses the NFL cancelling the supplemental draft and the ramifications for Brendan Sorsby plus news regarding Dianna Russini and PFT mailbag.
(0:50) NFLPA in tough spot after NFL declines to hold supplemental draft
(12:35) Where does Brendan Sorsby go from here?
(20:10) New York Times publishes an article about Dianna Russini
(30:25) Lamar Jackson is all-in with new coaching staff
(32:55) Florio opens the PFT PM mailbag to answer questions about Brendan Sorsby, Arch Manning and NFL broadcast deals.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a Wednesday edition of PFTPM. |
| 0:10.9 | June 24, June 24 usually means nothing is happening in the NFL. |
| 0:18.4 | Offseason programs are over. |
| 0:23.0 | Free agents have been signed. Any that haven't been signed, they'll sign closer to training camp or during training camp or maybe during the season. |
| 0:27.4 | This is supposed to be low tide. Let me know when it's low tide. I like it this way. I like it |
| 0:33.9 | this way. I always get nervous when things slow down. I feel like it's never going to pick up again, although it always does. |
| 0:39.2 | But first, it's got to slow down before it can pick up. |
| 0:41.7 | It may be that this year, there is no dip in the news, the reactions, the analysis, and |
| 0:49.6 | anything and everything we could cover here and at Pro Football Talk.com. |
| 0:52.3 | Obviously, the big story continues to be, Brendan Suresby, the NFL deciding yesterday to not hold a supplemental draft, which slams the |
| 1:00.4 | door on Brendan Sorsby, which essentially operates as a one-year suspension. I've had time to think about |
| 1:07.0 | this. I've done some research. I went back and read the Maurice Claret legal decision |
| 1:12.8 | from 2004. He sued the NFL over its rule that you have to be at least three years out of high |
| 1:19.8 | school before you can be drafted. He initially won at the district court level. He lost at the U.S. |
| 1:24.7 | Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. |
| 1:35.3 | And I think what the league decided, the league decided, we just don't want this guy to play this year. |
| 1:36.9 | He hasn't been punished. |
| 1:38.1 | He hasn't shown accountability. |
| 1:41.6 | We don't want him to play in 2026. |
| 1:42.7 | How do we get them? |
| 1:45.7 | And there were two ways to get there. Number one, |
| 1:51.9 | you let him in to the draft, you suspend him later like they did to Terrell prior in 2011. |
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