Navigating NFL's Supplemental Draft: A Prospective Look
Exploring the NFL's supplemental draft and Brendan Sorsby's 2027 deferred entry, weighing its advantages and disadvantages. What does the NFL need to do?
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I was taken in the supplemental draft, and Brian Bosworth and a bunch of guys like Cris Carter, we went out in '87.
And from my understanding, Jacob, the NFL has never denied anybody an opportunity to go into a supplemental draft.
Were you okay with what and how the NFL handled the Brandon Soulsby story?
'Cause it looks like now he's gotta wait until the 2027 NFL Draft, and that's yet to be determined whether or not a team will overlook the gambling.
Now that all of this has come out, does this make it even harder for him to potentially get into that NFL draft and actually get drafted next April?
I think it's gonna be a big concern, but in a strange way, I kinda think it might benefit him not to be in the supplemental draft because the element of time And I get that he's not gonna be playing anywhere this 2026 season, and that's gonna have a massive impact on, you know, seeing how is he gonna develop, what's he gonna look like during the pre-draft process.
But basically by not going to the supplemental draft, I, I don't know if there was a settlement on this, but the NFL has seemingly said Soulsby will be allowed to participate in the pre-draft stuff, whether it's college all-star games, the NFL Combine, pro day workouts, all that sort of stuff.
So I think he probably looked at it and said, "Hey, if I go in the supplemental draft, like yeah, maybe I would get drafted somewhere and get a chance to play in the NFL."
But if he had gone undrafted through that process, then trying to get into the league after that would've been really difficult for him.
It would've put him in a time crunch too, just trying to get to a team, learn a system, prove that he can belong there, all with the gambling stuff hanging over his head.
So strangely, I think this is probably the best outcome for both sides.
Again, not ideal for Soulsby's purpose that he can't play this year anywhere, but I think time kinda heals all wounds a little bit.
When we get to next April, if Soulsby has good answers about, you know, like what has he done to kind of stem this problem that he has, try to alleviate concerns with the teams, I think it'll give him a better chance of being drafted and sticking around the NFL.
I completely 1,000% agree with you.
I think that supplemental draft is horrible, and it stunts the growth and development of all players.
Very rarely has anybody come out of that and really gone on and done any kinda success in the NFL.
There's only two guys I can think of, and that's Bernie Kosar and Cris Carter here.
