New Delhi, June 26 -- NEW YORK - The NFL ended Brendan Sorsby's 2026 season before it started, but it did so in a way that his attorney says crossed a legal line.

On June 23, the league informed teams and the quarterback himself that it would not hold a supplemental draft this summer. The announcement was procedurally unremarkable. The NFL holds supplemental drafts infrequently and has the right under the collective bargaining agreement to convene one in any given year, or not to. What made this different was the person it was designed to exclude.

Sorsby, 22, had applied for the supplemental draft eight days earlier, offering the league its first formal opportunity to evaluate whether a player who had bet on his own college team, entere...