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What a week last week was for the NFL.
The NFL announced it would hold its first supplemental draft since 2019. The draft was going to be for Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby. However, once the mounting evidence poured in against Sorsby, the NFL backed out of providing Sorsby with its supplemental draft. Perhaps the NFL was attempting to avoid setting a precedent because of the increased gambling by college players.
The NFL supplemental draft is held when a player is eligible to become an NFL player but was not included in the previous spring's annual NFL draft. He applies and, if eligible, is almost always provided with a supplemental draft.
Think 'silent auction' because that is how the supplemental draft basically functions. Each team submits to the NFL which player they will select from the available pool. However, the flip side of that coin is that if the NFL team makes the highest offer for the available player being drafted, it forfeits that draft pick in the following NFL draft the next spring.
Sorsby, being a quarterback, was certainly going to be drafted in this supplemental draft. By whom and to what extent would the major questions have been involved? There are teams out there who might have wanted to select Sorsby, say, in the second to fourth round, aiming to sit him for a year and see if he would develop.
As for the Washington Commanders, GM Adam Peters showed he indeed wanted a younger quarterback to see how he develops when he chose Rutgers QB Athan Kaliakmanis in the 7th/final round of the annual draft. So it's highly unlikely the Commanders would have offered a choice high enough to be competitive for Sorsby in this supplemental draft.
Some Redskins fans will recall when Washington took a Kentucky pass rusher in the third round of the 2009 Supplemental Draft. They selected Jeremy Jarmon, thus losing their 2010 third-round pick in the annual NFL draft, and Jarmon then ended up starting only one game and was out of the NFL after only two seasons.
Virginia Tech corner Adonis Alexander in the 2018 supplemental draft was chosen by the Redskins when they offered the highest pick for him. It was their sixth round selection, and they didn't get much out of Alexander either. Alexander played only 9 games in the NFL, as the Redskins again struck out in the supplemental draft.
Some of the fans, as old as I am, will recall that there have been big names who became eligible for a supplemental draft, were selected, and had productive NFL careers. QB Bernie Kosar and Cris Carter are the first to come to mind. Others included LB Brian Bosworth, RB Bobby Humphrey, Josh Gordon, and Ahmad Brooks.
This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Commanders' history in the NFL supplemental draft is ugly
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The NFL announced it would hold its first supplemental draft since 2019. The draft was going to be for Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby. However, once the mounting evidence poured in against Sorsby, the NFL backed out of providing Sorsby with its supplemental draft. Perhaps the NFL was attempting to avoid setting a precedent because of the increased gambling by college players.
The NFL supplemental draft is held when a player is eligible to become an NFL player but was not included in the previous spring's annual NFL draft. He applies and, if eligible, is almost always provided with a supplemental draft.
Think 'silent auction' because that is how the supplemental draft basically functions. Each team submits to the NFL which player they will select from the available pool. However, the flip side of that coin is that if the NFL team makes the highest offer for the available player being drafted, it forfeits that draft pick in the following NFL draft the next spring.
Sorsby, being a quarterback, was certainly going to be drafted in this supplemental draft. By whom and to what extent would the major questions have been involved? There are teams out there who might have wanted to select Sorsby, say, in the second to fourth round, aiming to sit him for a year and see if he would develop.
As for the Washington Commanders, GM Adam Peters showed he indeed wanted a younger quarterback to see how he develops when he chose Rutgers QB Athan Kaliakmanis in the 7th/final round of the annual draft. So it's highly unlikely the Commanders would have offered a choice high enough to be competitive for Sorsby in this supplemental draft.
Some Redskins fans will recall when Washington took a Kentucky pass rusher in the third round of the 2009 Supplemental Draft. They selected Jeremy Jarmon, thus losing their 2010 third-round pick in the annual NFL draft, and Jarmon then ended up starting only one game and was out of the NFL after only two seasons.
Virginia Tech corner Adonis Alexander in the 2018 supplemental draft was chosen by the Redskins when they offered the highest pick for him. It was their sixth round selection, and they didn't get much out of Alexander either. Alexander played only 9 games in the NFL, as the Redskins again struck out in the supplemental draft.
Some of the fans, as old as I am, will recall that there have been big names who became eligible for a supplemental draft, were selected, and had productive NFL careers. QB Bernie Kosar and Cris Carter are the first to come to mind. Others included LB Brian Bosworth, RB Bobby Humphrey, Josh Gordon, and Ahmad Brooks.
This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Commanders' history in the NFL supplemental draft is ugly
Continue reading...
