Texas Tech QB’s gambling saga now features Tom Brady’s Deflategate lawyer

OutKick's Jonathan Hutton and Chad Withrow discuss the gambling epidemic across college sports.

Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s NCAA gambling situation just took a significant legal turn.

Sorsby has reportedly hired high-profile sports attorney Jeffrey Kessler as he attempts to preserve his college eligibility amid an NCAA investigation into alleged sports betting activity.

If Kessler's name sounds familiar to sports fans, it should.

Kessler represented Tom Brady during Deflategate and was the lead attorney in the House v. NCAA case that helped push college sports into its current revenue-sharing era. Now, he appears to be involved in one of the strangest eligibility fights college football has ever seen.

Jeffrey Kessler, attorney for the NFL Players Association, leaves NFL headquarters in New York City on June 23, 2015. Kessler was there regarding Tom Brady's appeal of a four-game suspension for the 2015 season related to deflated footballs used in games the previous season. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

OutKick previously reported that sources around the situation believe there’s a strong chance Sorsby could be declared ineligible for the 2026 season, depending on the NCAA’s findings.

Sorsby isn't pretending that he doesn't have a gambling problem or that he didn't bet on sports. The quarterback recently checked himself into a gambling addiction treatment program.

TEXAS TECH QB BRENDAN SORSBY ENTERING TREATMENT FOR GAMBLING ADDICTION AMID NCAA INVESTIGATION

But the investigation centers, in part, on whether Sorsby placed bets while he was on Indiana’s roster in 2022. He redshirted that season but did appear in one game, although there's no evidence he wagered on the one game he played.

The NCAA has taken a