The NFL’s Supplemental Draft is back for the first time since 2019 after the league granted eligibility for Purdue receiver Milton Wright. In 2021, he caught 57 passes for 732 yards and seven touchdowns for the Boilermakers.
Wright was ruled academically ineligible for the 2022 college football season and left Purdue last May.
The Supplemental Draft is for draft-eligible players who didn’t enter the selection process but cannot return to college football the same year.
There have been 46 players selected in the National Football League supplemental draft since its inception in 1977.
The supplemental draft was created in 1977 for players whose circumstances affected their eligibility and who did not enter the NFL draft during the spring.
Three players in the 1984 supplemental draft entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Steve Young, Gary Zimmerman, and Reggie White.