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23 days ago

The league will not hold a supplemental draft in 2025. Their last supplemental draft choice was made in 2019.

It’s been years since the NFL’s last supplemental draft. The last player selected via the supplemental draft process was Jalen Thompson, a safety who was taken in the fifth round by the Arizona Cardinals  back in 2019.


There are a couple of reasons why players aren’t testing the NFL beyond the traditional draft. First of all, the NCAA continues to lose legal battles around player movement and compensation, which is allowing players to earn at the college level and transfer at will. In this world, a Terrelle Pryor (2011 third-round pick) never gets suspended by the NCAA for “improper benefits” and never has to enter the supplemental draft in the first place.


Over the last decade, there have been all of three players who have been picked in the supplemental draft: Two players (Sam Beal and Adonis Alexander) who were ruled academically ineligible, and one player (Thompson) who was ruled ineligible by the NCAA due to taking a non-steroid over-the-counter supplement.


It’s just rarer to find players who want to jump to the NFL post-minicamp rather than testing their chances in the transfer portal. The whole pool, at this point, should only be comprised of players who have been ruled ineligible by the NCAA, which isn’t a large group of players to begin with. Even then, the alternative of spring leagues presents an opportunity.


Back in 2020, the XFL  signed Kenny Robinson, who was expelled from West Virginia due to academic fraud. Instead of transferring to a different institution, he played spring league football and was ultimately taken in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL draft  following his lone season in the XFL. That’s proof of concept that a player could play in an alternative league, rather than just the NCAA, and preserve his stock to go through the traditional NFL draft process.


On Friday, The Athletic’s Dane Brugler reported  that the NFL made the decision not to host a supplemental draft in 2025. At this point, it’s uncertain if we’ll see a supplemental draft choice made in the near future.


According to Brugler, one player who was considering the supplemental draft route was former Utah State running back Rahsul Faison. Faison began his college career in 2020 at the junior college level, though he did not play during the COVID-19 season. He also didn’t step on the field in 2021, when he transferred to Marshall. In 2022, Faison jumped back down to the JuCo level before spending 2023 and 2024 with Utah State.


In theory, Faison should have been given a free roll on his 2020 season, due to eligibility being preserved for the COVID-19 season across the board. His 2021 season should have counted as a redshirt year, meaning that he should have eligibility through the 2025 season — which he’s hoping to spend at South Carolina, where he transferred.


Still, the NCAA is making Faison file a waiver for his eligibility, a ruling they have yet to finalize, despite courts already stating that JuCo eligibility has to be separated from NCAA eligibility, as the NCAA doesn’t have oversight over the JuCo level of the sport. That’s why Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, who graduated from high school the same year as Faison, still has NCAA eligibility despite never having redshirted at all during his five years of college football.


Just the fact that Faison is willing to take his chances at transfer portal money to play at South Carolina, rather than moving to the professional level via the supplemental draft, goes to show you how limited a future supplemental draft player pool will be moving forward. Last year, Faison earned second-team All-Mountain West  honors with Utah State and rushed for 1,109 yards on 198 carries (5.6 yards per carry).




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It's the slow time of the year in the NFL

Instead of a supp draft let them be UDFA
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Zero2Cool
23 days ago

It's the slow time of the year in the NFL

Instead of a supp draft let them be UDFA

Originally Posted by: wpr 


Don't players have to request to be in the supplement draft? Or ask or something?
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23 days ago
I'm not sure why a player would ever asked to be in a draft when he can freely negotiate with any team with whom he wants to negotiate.
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Zero2Cool
23 days ago

I'm not sure why a player would ever asked to be in a draft when he can freely negotiate with any team with whom he wants to negotiate.

Originally Posted by: Martha Careful 


That is an incredible point. I wonder if money/contract is why? If they are drafted, they probably get more money, more guaranteed "time" so to speak?

Here's some stuff I found on the interwebz.

The NFL supplemental draft is for players who become eligible for the draft after the regular NFL draft has already taken place. Players who declare for the supplemental draft typically do so due to unexpected eligibility issues in college, such as academic ineligibility or disciplinary issues. Players must be at least three years removed from high school to be eligible. The supplemental draft was last held in 2019, and it is not scheduled for 2024 or 2025.

Eligibility:
  • Players must be at least three years removed from high school.
  • They must have eligibility issues that prevent them from participating in the regular NFL draft.
  • These issues can include academic ineligibility, disciplinary issues, or failing to declare for the draft by the deadline.

How it works:
  • Teams submit bids for players in the supplemental draft.
  • The bids are for a specific round of the draft.
  • The team with the highest bid for a player is awarded the player.
  • If a team selects a player in the supplemental draft, they forfeit their pick in the corresponding round of the next year's regular draft.
  • The draft order is determined by a weighted lottery, with teams with fewer wins having a better chance of getting the higher picks.

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