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The Last Time Howie Roseman Brought in a Gambler, the Eagles Won the Super Bowl
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There’s been all of this chatter about Brendan Sorsby because mainstream sports media doesn’t know how to talk about anything else in the summer. They’d rather cram the football round peg into the square hole than talk about baseball, or the World Cup, or just go on vacation for a couple of weeks.
Therefore: Should the Eagles take a look at Sorsby? Will he replace Jalen Hurts in 2027?
Stuff like that is floating around out there.
For starters, I’m willing to bet most casual Philadelphia sports fans never watched the guy throw a single pass. In fact, we ran a poll on Tuesday in which 39.6% of respondents thought that Sorsby played for Texas Tech in 2025:
He didn’t play for Texas Tech in 2025. He played for Cincinnati, two seasons with the Bearcats after leaving Indiana following the 2023 season. He transferred from Cincy to Lubbock, and that’s when it was revealed he bet on Indiana football while a Hoosiers player. After some messy legal back and forth, he’s now entering the NFL via the Supplemental Draft, which takes place in July.
So two questions here – 1) is the guy any good?, and 2) would/should the Eagles go after him?
To answer question one, yes. Yes, he is good. He threw for 2,700 yards and 27 touchdowns last season while being picked off just five times. He also ran for 580 yards on 100 attempts and scored nine touchdowns on the ground. He’s 6’3″ and about 235 pounds, right about the same height/weight as Matt Stafford and Dak Prescott. He had a stinker against ranked Utah but was pretty good against BYU and there was an Indiana/Penn State game back in 2023 in which he threw for 269 yards and three touchdowns in Happy Valley. Those stats might be skewed by two huge TD passes, but he was pretty solid overall in a 33-24 loss.
Question #2: yeah, why not? Do you remember the last gambler the Eagles signed? It was Isaiah Rodgers, and after his suspension the Birds went to the Super Bowl and won it all. So for that reason alone they should pursue Sorsby, to recreate the magic of 2024. And sure, Rodgers was a depth corner and a returner and not a signal caller, so quite the difference, but he was really good behind Quinyon Mitchell and Big Play Slay and had a key fumble recovery in the playoffs. There were no personal issues after he was suspended for the entirety of the 2023 season for betting on NFL games while playing for the Colts. It worked out well for both sides.
This feels like something the Eagles would do their homework on and take a serious look at. Get Big Dom over to Sorsby’s house for an interrogation. Jalen Carter worked out. Isaiah Rodgers worked out. Jim Schwartz called Nigel Bradham a dumbass, then things worked out and they won Super Bowl 52. Michael Vick’s second act went fine here, at least for the people that were willing to forgive him after the jail sentence.
The one thing you can trust, is that if the Eagles do go after Sorsby, they’ll exercise due diligence. They always do.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com