NFL Cancels 2020 Supplemental Draft

In breaking news, the National Football League will not hold a supplemental draft in 2020.

Under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, the NFL can hold one supplemental draft every year. Still, it was decided by the NFL Management Council Executive Committee to cancel it after they discussed the issue of having the draft while the COVID-19 pandemic was still ongoing.

The draft is usually held in July, allowing players who are unable to be drafted in the televised NFL draft held in the springtime to have the ability to still join a team.

The supplemental draft isn’t as publicized as the primary NFL draft, but notable players such as Hall of Fame receiver Cris Carter, Josh Gordon, Bernie Kosar, Ahmad Brooks and Terrelle Pryor have all come out of the supplemental draft in the past.

The catch is that if a team wants to select a player in the supplemental draft, it has to give up a draft choice in the NFL draft the following year for the round they picked the player in the supplemental draft.

For example, the then Oakland Raiders took Terrelle Pryor in the third round of the 2011 supplemental draft, so they had to give up a third round pick in the 2012 NFL draft.

Of course, if teams have no desire to draft any players in the supplemental draft, they can pass.

What’s not clear as of now, though, is how the league will handle players who would have qualified for the draft had it not been canceled. It’s been reported that the league is still working that issue out and will reveal the rest of the plan at a later date.

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