NFL Supplemental Draft Passes With No Selections
None of the six eligible players were drafted in Thursday’s NFL Supplemental Draft.
Thursday’s NFL Supplemental Draft passed, as expected, without ceremony as none of the six eligible players were selected by any team. This is the third time in four years that no players were taken in the supplemental draft.
The then-St. Louis Rams drafted tackle Isaiah Battle in the fifth round of last year’s draft, and the Cleveland Browns now somewhat infamously took Josh Gordon in the second round of the 2012 edition but the event has generally passed with little fanfare since its establishment in 1977.
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The draft serves as a second chance for athletes who were not eligible for the regular draft, oftentimes due to off-field or academic reasons. Dan Kadar of SB Nation’s Mocking The Draft profiled each of this year’s eligible players, who are now all free agents who can sign with any team.
Eight players, including Gordon, who have been selected in the supplemental draft have appeared in at least one Pro Bowl. One draftee, Cris Carter, is a Hall of Famer.
Perhaps the most interesting element of the supplemental draft is its format, which does not follow the strict inverted order of its much more involved May counterpart. The teams are divided into three tiers depending on their records, the final order being determined by a system that gives the worst teams the best chance to get the top picks within their tier, but does not guarantee them.
Also, instead of each team standing up and ceremoniously passing off their pick to the next team in line, teams essentially bid on players by submitting the names of the players that they are interested in selecting, along with the pick they would use to draft them. The team who bids the earliest pick for the player wins the right to sign that player and forfeits the corresponding pick in the next year’s NFL Draft.
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The Detroit Lions have picked only one player in the supplemental draft, selecting defensive back Kevin Robinson in 1982.