The NFL has informed teams that the supplemental draft will not take place in 2024, according to various reports including ESPN’s Adam Schefter:
NFL teams were informed today that there will be no supplemental draft this year.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 26, 2024
Last offseason, the supplemental draft made a return for the first time since 2019. No one made a selection at last year’s event.
No teams are required to take a player in the supplemental draft. If they do, that team will surrender a draft pick from the next NFL draft.
All 32 teams decided to keep all their 2024 draft selections in 2023 and won’t have to decide if they’ll forfeit one in the 2025 NFL draft.
The supplemental event gives college players, who have had changes in their eligibility since the NFL draft, to be selected. Every year, the league is able to choose whether or not to hold one.
The last player selected in a supplemental draft was Washington State safety Jalen Thompson, who was selected in the fifth round by the Arizona Cardinals in 2019.
In terms of the Bills and the supplemental draft, there’s been a few additions made that way, but it’s been a long time. The last time the Bills elected to do so was for defensive back Brett Young in 1989 and the other was via running back Rod Stewart in 1979.
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