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NFL won’t have a supplemental draft this summer

The Broncos used a first-round pick to select RB Bobby Humphrey in the first round of the NFL’s 1989 supplemental draft.

The NFL informed teams earlier this week that there will not be a supplemental draft in 2024, according to ESPN.

Two players were eligible last year but neither were selected. Before that, the league had not held a supplemental draft since 2019. The most recent player selected in the draft was safety Jalen Thompson, picked by the Arizona Cardinals five years ago.

Two players were picked in 2018 — cornerbacks Adonis Alexander and Sam Beal — and offensive tackle Isaiah Battle was picked in 2015. The most notable recent pick was wide receiver Josh Gordon in 2012.

The supplemental draft exists for prospects who were not eligible when the NFL draft is held in April. If a team picks a player in the supplemental draft, they forfeit their corresponding pick in the next year’s draft.

For example, when the Denver Broncos picked running back Bobby Humphrey in the first round of the 1989 supplement draft, the Broncos forfeited their first-round pick in the 1990 NFL draft.

This summer, for the fourth time in the last five years, the NFL won’t hold a supplemental draft.

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There will be no NFL Supplemental draft in 2024

There will be no NFL Supplemental draft in 2024

The NFL often holds a supplemental draft during the summer for players who became eligible after the final date to enter the regular NFL Draft, or for players with special eligibility circumstances. However, the league will not hold a supplemental draft in 2024.

In a memo from the league obtained via ESPN, the NFL informed the 32 teams that there will not be a supplemental draft this year. It will mark the fourth time in five years that the supplemental draft, an optional activity in the collective bargaining agreement, will not take place.

The league did hold a supplemental draft in 2023, but neither of the two eligible players wound up being selected. Washington State safety Jalen Thompson was the last player selected in a supplemental draft, by the Arizona Cardinals in the fifth round back in 2019.

NFL informs teams there will not be a 2024 supplemental draft

It returned last year:

The NFL has informed teams that the supplemental draft will not take place in 2024, according to various reports including ESPN’s Adam Schefter:

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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Chargers sign WR Milton Wright

The Chargers have added more depth at wide receiver.

The Chargers have added more depth at wide receiver.

Who would’ve thought that would be a sentence anyone could type after last season?

On Wednesday, Los Angeles announced the signing of former Purdue WR Milton Wright, who entered the NFL Supplemental Draft earlier this month but was not selected. Wright sat out the 2022 season at Purdue due to an academic issue.

Wright was once touted as the latest in a Boilermaker lineage at wide receiver that produced Rondale Moore (Cardinals) and David Bell (Browns) in consecutive seasons. In 2021, Wright was second on the team with 732 yards and led Purdue with seven receiving touchdowns, edging Bell and tight end Payne Durham’s totals of six each.

While not a fantastic athlete, Wright has a prototypical NFL body and was produced in an NFL-style system at Purdue. He’s likely a camp body who will be fighting for a practice squad spot with the Chargers.

 

Both Supplemental draft wide receivers go undrafted

Neither Supplemental draft entrant has found a home yet.

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Both wide receivers who entered the NFL Supplemental draft, Purdue’s Milton Wright and Jackson State’s Malachi Wideman, did not get a bid from the Cleveland Browns or the 31 other teams in the NFL. They are both now free agents who can sign with any team and compete for a roster spot in training camp.

Wideman has already been scheduling workouts with NFL teams and also has already received contract offers from XFL and Canadian Football League teams (according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero).

The Browns have a full wide receiver room, so it would be a shock to see either player land on their 90-man roster as we are now just ten days out from the start of training camp.

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The 5 best picks in NFL supplemental draft history

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.

NFL Supplemental draft hopeful Milton Wright fails to impress at workout

Wright’s chances of getting picked in the NFL Supplemental draft take a major hit.

After three years off, the NFL Supplemental draft is back on with two wide receivers in the pool of players for NFL teams to bid on. One of those wide players, however, failed to make a positive impression as former Purdue pass catcher Milton Wright flailed at his workout with the event just three days away.

The Athletic’s Dane Brugler was kind enough to pass along Wright’s numbers from his workout, and they would register as historically bad if it had happened at the NFL Scouting Combine. Here are the results from Wright’s workout.

The 2023 Supplemental draft will feature 2 players

The 2023 Supplemental draft will feature 2 wide receivers who were granted eligibility by the NFL

For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the NFL will hold a supplemental draft this year. The official supplemental draft will take place on Tuesday, July 11th in the first edition of the midsummer selection process since 2019.

There are only two players who are eligible for selection in the supplemental draft, which is designed for players whose draft eligibility changed after the regular draft deadline. Both are wide receivers.

Jackson State’s Malachi Wideman and Milton Wright from Purdue are up for selection. Wideman is a transfer from Tennessee who had a big year at FCS-level Jackson State in 2021. Wright did not play for the Boilermakers in 2022 after being ruled academically ineligible.

Taking either wideout in the supplemental draft would cost any team the equivalent round pick in the 2024 NFL draft. No player has been selected in the supplemental draft since the Cardinals snagged safety Jalen Thompson back in 2019.

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Another WR accepted into NFL supplemental draft

Former Tennessee and Jackson State receiver Malachi Wideman is one of two known players who have been accepted for the supplemental draft.

The NFL supplemental draft returns for the first time since 2019, when the Arizona Cardinals used a fifth-round selection to draft safety Jalen Thompson. There will be at least two players eligible.

Only one player was previously known to have been accepted for eligibility — Purdue receiver Milton Wright.

A second receiver has received eligibility, per multiple reports.

That second player is former Jackson State receiver Malachi Wideman.

The supplemental draft, held by the NFL from 1977-2019, was designed to give eligibility to players who would have been eligible for the regular draft earlier in the year but opted not to declare and then had extenuating circumstances. It could be a suspension for the upcoming college season, a coaching change that would change the player’s potential prospects to perform and then be selected in the next draft.

The last player selected in the supplemental draft was Arizona Cardinals safety Jalen Thompson in 2019. They used a fifth-round pick to select him out of Washington State after a team violation made him ineligible for the 2019 season.

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Will the Browns be interested in a former Deion Sanders’ player?

Former Jackson State Star Malachi Wideman declared for the NFL Supplemental draft. Could the Browns be interested?

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Malachi Wideman, a wide receiver from Jackson State and the Tennessee Volunteers, has declared for the NFL Supplemental draft as per Aaron Wilson. The Supplemental Draft will be held on July 11. The 6-foot-5 and 200-pound wide receiver started his college career at Tennessee in 2020 before transferring to Deion Sanders’ Jackson State. Could the Cleveland Browns find interest?

 In his first season with the Tigers, Malachi recorded 540 yards on 34 catches and 12 touchdowns. His 12 touchdowns would lead the SWAC in 2021. Unfortunately, Malachi failed to improve on his 2021 season, recording just three catches and a touchdown in 2022. Malachi was purportedly in Deion Sanders’ dog house for most of the season for unknown reasons. 

Before Malachi was at Jackson State, he was a freshman at Tennessee during the shortened 2020 season. Malachi was the Volunteers’ class of 2020 highest-ranked wide receiver recruit, over future Biletnikoff winner Jalin Hyatt. Malachi was not just a four-star football recruit, he was also a four-star basketball recruit. As a freshman, Wideman had one catch for 24 yards against Kentucky. Malachi decided to transfer after Tennessee fired their coaching staff in 2020.

Wideman has been training at former NFL star Brandon Marshall’s training facility, House of Athletes, this offseason in preparation for the NFL. The former two-sport star will be anxious to hear his name called in the Supplemental Draft on July 11.

The Supplemental draft is an auction, where teams bid next year’s draft picks on prospects for this season. If a prospect isn’t selected in the Supplemental draft they are eligible to sign with any NFL team as a free agent. So far only Malachi Wideman and former Purdue Boilermaker Milton Wright have declared for the Supplemental draft.

Could the Browns look to pair David Bell or Cedric Tillman with their former college teammate? It is possible. The Browns have relied on the Supplemental Draft before. In 2012 the Browns selected Josh Gordon as a second-round pick. The Browns will leave no stone unturned to find talent.

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