Browns face an impossible Brendan Sorsby question

The Cleveland Browns are going to be one of the teams suggested as a possible landing spot for Brendan Sorsby.

The talented QB is reportedly applying to enter the NFL's supplemental draft, and the Browns obviously could use a quarterback, which is going to put them into the mix. But there isn't just one confusing layer here. There are several.

The first is the reason Sorsby is leaving college football in general: He bet on sports, a lot, including admittedly on his own team when he was a backup quarterback at Indiana.

A temporary injunction had granted him the right to play this season at Texas Tech, but it had the whole sport up in arms, and so it seems he has now chosen to leave the NCAA level.

So before even getting to football, there's a complication for anyone considering Sorsby.

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For the Browns, it gets tougher because of what their QB future plans might hold as far as the 2027 NFL Draft.

This season's Browns are set to have Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders as starting options, but neither seems likely to last long term. The most logical plan would be to pick a quarterback in the first round of the 2027 draft.

If they ended up going after Sorsby in the supplemental draft, it gets tougher. Teams bid a draft pick from the upcoming year to go after a player in the supplemental draft, and whoever has the strongest bid gets the player but loses the pick.

If the Browns bid a second-round pick and get Sorsby, would they then still consider using a first-rounder in 2027 on a QB? That'd essentially be picking a quarterback in each of the first two rounds of the same draft.

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It'd get even tougher if Sorsby faced any NFL discipline for his college transgressions, because the Browns would then have even less time to assess his ability before deciding what to do with what looks like a strong draft class.

These are all hypotheticals, of course, but they very much seem to be realistic, at least to some extent.

Cleveland has as messy a quarterback history as any team in the NFL. Somehow, this oculd be a chance to make it even messier.

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