What is the NFL supplemental draft?
Steven Godfrey explains the NFL supplemental draft and how it applies to Brendan Sorsby.
Video Transcript
Does everyone here know how the supplemental draft works and what you have to have or not have to be in the supplemental draft?
You gotta be ineligible.
You cannot be an NCAA eligible football player and enter the NFL supplemental draft.
Sorsby withdrew his complaint where the injunction was granted, thus returning him to ineligibility with the NCAA for the gambling, thus allowing him to go to the supplemental draft.
Now, the shortest way to explain the supplemental draft is there is a kind of micro version of the NFL draft that occurs, and the difference here is there's a small pool of players, and everybody goes around in order, and there's a first round, and everybody says, "All right, does anybody want Brandon Sorsby?
You g- anybody?"
It's, it's very much like auctioning off leftovers in a fridge.
I'm not kidding.
"Anybody?
Chicken piccata from Tuesday?
We good?
Okay."
And then everybody says no once, and so that's the first round.
And then we go around and we go, "Really, seriously, chicken piccata.
Does anybody want chicken piccata again?"
And then we go around, "Okay, your mom made it.
It's fine.
It's good.
Just reheat it."
Until someone says, "Yes, I will take the chicken piccata," which in this case is Brandon Sorsby and his damaged career.
Whatever round they take him in, however many times you go around, is the, is the pick you then forfeit for the following draft.
If so some team takes him in the third round of the supplemental draft, they're burning a third round pick
