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Ranking the best players ever selected in the NFL Supplemental Draft
The NFL will hold its supplemental draft on Tuesday. It will be the first time since 2019 the event, which allows players whose draft eligibility has changed since the regular draft period to be selected, will take place.
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There have been over 40 players selected in the supplemental draft over the years, dating back to the first in 1977. Here are the five best players who came out of the supplemental draft ranks.
The NFL will hold a supplemental draft on Tuesday. Two wide receivers — Malachi Wideman and Milton Wright — are eligible to be picked.
For the first time since 2019, the NFL will hold a supplemental draft this offseason.
The supplemental draft was originally “created to serve prospects who were not eligible for the annual spring draft for various reasons,” according to the league’s official website.
In order to make a pick in the supplemental pick, a team must forfeit a pick in the next draft. For example, if the Denver Broncos want to pick a player in this year’s supplemental draft, they would have to use a selection from their 2024 pool of draft picks (perhaps one of their two seventh-round picks).
There are only two players eligible for the supplemental draft his year — Jackson State wide receiver Malachi Wideman and Purdue wide receiver Milton Wright, according to NFL Network.
The most recent player selected in a supplemental draft was safety Jalen Thompson, who was selected by the Arizona Cardinals with a fifth-round pick in 2019.
The Broncos have made a pick in a supplemental draft once in their history, using a first-round pick to select running back Bobby Humphrey in 1989.
The 2023 NFL supplemental draft will be held on Tuesday, July 11.
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The NFL won’t have a supplemental draft in 2020.
The NFL will not have a supplemental draft this year.
“Given the current conditions due to COVID-19, and after discussions with the NFL Management Council Executive Committee, the decision was made not to hold one in 2020,” according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.
Players who were eligible for the supplemental draft will not become NFL free agents. Instead, they will become eligible to enter the 2021 NFL Draft.
Here’s a supplemental draft explainer, from NFL.com’s Kevin Patra:
The NFL’s supplemental draft allows teams to bid on players who, for various reasons, had their college eligibility affected and did not enter the regular spring draft. Teams bid the following year’s draft picks on eligible players. The club submitting the highest pick is granted that player, forfeiting the corresponding pick in the coming year’s spring draft.
The Broncos haven’t selected a player in the supplemental draft since 1989 when they landed Alabama running back Bobby Humphrey in the first round. He went on to earn a Pro Bowl selection in 1990 and was the first player in franchise history to rush for 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons (1989-1990).
Notable players selected in recent supplemental drafts include wide receiver Josh Gordon (2012) and quarterback Terrelle Pryor (2011).
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There will be no NFL Supplemental Draft in 2020.
One possible entrance to the NFL for college football players concerned their season will not take place has been slammed shut. The NFL will not hold a supplemental draft in 2020, it has been reported.
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Under the collective bargaining agreement, the NFL may elect to hold a supplemental draft, but given the current conditions due to COVID-19, and after discussions with the NFL Management Council Executive Committee, the decision was made not to hold one in 2020.
Prospective supplemental draft picks will not be free agents, but can enter the 2021 NFL Draft instead, Tom Pelissero reported.
That’s a big shot to players who would have draft eligibility. They could be looking at a shortened, postponed, or canceled college season. The supplemental draft would have provided players with an opportunity to make themselves available to all 32 NFL teams.
The way it usually works is a team is able to bid on players who, for various reasons, had their college eligibility affected and did not enter the regular spring draft. Teams bid the following year’s draft picks on eligible players. The club submitting the highest pick is granted that player, forfeiting the corresponding pick in the coming year’s spring draft.
Reasons for becoming eligible vary from signing with an agent to being dismissed from a college team to graduating early. The key option in 2020 would have been: decided not to return for his final year of eligibility after the normal draft.
Some of the names that have been chosen in supplemental draft history: Bernie Kosar (Miami, Cleveland Browns, 1985); Cris Carter (Ohio State, Philadelphia Eagles, 1987); Steve Walsh (Miami, Dallas Cowboys, 1989); Bobby Humphrey (Alabama, Denver Broncos, 1989); Rob Moore (Syracuse, New York Jets, 1990); Jamal Williams (1998, Oklahoma State, San Diego Chargers); Terrelle Pryor (Ohio State, Oakland Raiders, 2011) and John Gordon (Baylor, Cleveland Browns, 2012). Terrelle Pryor (Ohio State, Oakland Raiders, 2011).
