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The NFL Supplemental Draft is Thursday at 1pm!!1

With seatbelts fastened, the Supplemental Draft allows a small number players to be drafted each year who one way or another didn’t qualify for the regular draft (or didn’t think they needed to declare) and have now found themselves ineligible to play in college as well.

The draft takes place via email, apparently. So it’s minus the green room. Any team that uses a pick on a player will lose that corresponding pick in next year’s draft.



This season, while there aren’t a lot of options out there, a few players that are available seem to actually be worthy of a day one pick.


First, there’s the 6-feet-8 and 3/4 tall Jared Gaither who plays offensive tackle and who some had as a possible first round draft pick in 2008. He’s got good feet for a big man, and is projected as a pass-specialist, starting LT at the NFL level. Gaither was ruled academically ineligible for this coming season at Maryland and was a late addition to the supplement list.

Likely second to be taken is cornerback Paul Oliver from Georgia. Oliver was also ruled academically ineligible for this coming season and so has been granted eligibility for the supplemental draft. He’s a junior who’s claim to fame has been one game against Georgia Tech last season where he helped contain Calvin Johnson.

But as the NFL’s Gil Brandt is quoted here on Oliver:

“But from the film, I don’t know if Oliver or [Tech quarterback] Reggie Ball shut down Johnson.”

Oliver ran a 4.57 forty - with the wind - but his time is said to have been slow because he was in poor shape.

Also likely to be selected is former Nebraska OT Chris Patrick and Texas State LB Mark Washington.

For a little history, Winning the Turnover Battle has a nice post about the best supplemental picks taken in years past.