The Miami Dolphins made a significant change at the most important position on their roster this offseason, moving on from Tua Tagovailoa and bringing in Malik Willis on a three-year deal to be the team’s starting quarterback.
While this move likely locks Willis in as the starter for at least the 2026 season, the Dolphins should still be looking to upgrade at the position in whatever way they can, and one NFL insider identified an unconventional way that Miami can try to do just that.
In a recent appeared on “The Rich Eisen Show,” the MMQB’s Albert Breer tabbed the the Dolphins as one of four teams that could consider using a pick in the 2026 NFL supplemental draft on controversial quarterback prospect Brendan Sorsby.
Sorsby was a three-star recruit out of Lake Dallas High School in Corinth, Texas, before spending two years at Indiana and the last two at Cincinnati. Between the two schools, he’s completed 61.4% of his passes for 7,208 yards, 60 touchdowns and 18 interceptions while rushing for an additional 1,305 yards and 22 scores.
The 22-year-old transferred to Texas Tech in January, but there’s a chance that he’s ineligible to play in 2026 due to a gambling investigation that led to the quarterback taking a medical leave for an addiction. The University of Cincinnati is also suing Sorsby for breach of an NIL contract.
If he’s ineligible to play college football in 2026, he could enter the supplemental draft, the NFL hasn’t held since 2019. Terrell Pryor was the last quarterback taken in the supplemental draft, when the Oakland Raiders took him in the third round in 2011.
Teams taking a player in the supplemental draft will forfeit their pick in the following year’s main draft in the same round. Breer believes some teams, including the Dolphins, may be willing to use a second-round pick in the supplemental draft on Sorsby, which would cost their second-round pick in the 2027 NFL draft.
Why would a team be willing to take the risk on a quarterback who has made some very clear mistakes off the field?
“From an arm-talent perspective, I hate to use the names Caleb Williams and Patrick Mahomes, but I think this kid has some of that,” one NFL coordinator told Breer.
If the NFL allows him to play in the league without a suspension, or allows him to be in the building for a year, Miami may find it worth a second-round pick to find a talented passer who could be the face of their franchise for years to come.
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This article originally appeared on Dolphins Wire: Dolphins identified as potential landing spot for controversial QB
