NEW YORK, June 26 -- The National Football League did not reject Brendan Sorsby. It cancelled the entire mechanism he would have used to enter it.

The league informed teams Wednesday it would not hold a 2026 supplemental draft, a decision whose only practical consequence was eliminating Sorsby's path to an NFL roster this year. The announcement came through the NFL, in a letter signed by Larry Ferazani, the general counsel of the NFL Management Council, informing Sorsby that his petition had not demonstrated accountability for his conduct or indicated how he would adhere to the league's rules governing the integrity of competition.

Sorsby's attorney, Jeffrey Kessler, told ESPN the league had crossed a legal line. The decision, Kessler s...