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The NFL has decided not to hold a supplemental draft ahead of its 2025 season, according to The Athletic’s Dane Brugler.
The NFL’s decision marks the second consecutive year it decided not to host the offseason event. The supplemental draft was originally created in 1977 to give players who did not enter the main NFL draft but had circumstances affect their college eligibility a chance to play professionally.
Teams making selections in the seven-round supplemental draft would sacrifice draft capital from the ensuing year’s common draft. For example, if a club chose a player in the fourth round of the supplemental draft, it would surrender its fourth-round pick in the next year’s draft.
No player has been selected in the NFL’s supplemental draft since 2019. The Arizona Cardinals made the lone selection in that event, spending a 2020 fifth-round pick to acquire Washington State safety Jalen Thompson.
A total of 46 players have been selected in the supplemental draft during the event’s 48-year history. Cris Carter is the lone among the crowd to become a Pro Football Hall of Famer; Bernie Kosar, Brian Bosworth, Jamal Williams, Terrelle Pryor and Josh Gordon comprise some of the other notable supplemental draft selections.
It isn’t clear whether any players were intending to declare for the 2025 supplemental draft. It also isn’t clear the NFL is planning to bring back the supplemental draft in 2026.