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Hey, they still hold a Supplemental Draft!

By ArtieFufkin

The Washington Redskins selected DE Jeremy Jarmon in this year's supplemental draft

Yeah, it caught me by surprise too. But apparently the NFL held it’s annual Supplemental Draft today, giving teams a chance to select one of eight college players who didn’t declare for April’s draft, but then lost or gave up their eligibility for varying reasons.

In the past, the supplemental draft has resulted in a handful of impact players in the NFL – most notably QB Bernie Kosar and WR Cris Carter.  Oh, and Brian Bosworth.  But for the most part, few players end up making it this way, and most end up going the way of Giants QB Dave Brown.

Plus, the supplemental draft is held somewhat like a silent auction, which takes pretty much all of the fun out of the process.  And clearly there’s no need to rent out Radio City and invite all 8 potential draftees down to sweat it out on national TV.  But you’d think the NFL could spring for a deli on the lower east side, and have Kiper blather on for a couple hours.  And there are literally NO photos of this event.  It’s like they held it in a back alley … or more likely over the interweb.

Here’s how the process works, from NFL Fanhouse:

Prior to Thursday afternoon’s “draft,” each NFL team’s general manager submitted an e-mail to the league, listing which players they’d like to bid on. Those bids include what round the team would like to “select” a player in — if a team is awarded a player in the 2009 supplemental draft, it forfeits it corresponding pick in the 2010 NFL draft.

The only player selected in the 2009 Supplemental Draft was Kentucky DE Jeremy Jarmon, who went to the Washington Redskins in exchange for the 19th pick of the 3rd round in the 2010 draft.  Jarmon tested positive for a banned substance, and was ruled ineligible by the NCAA for his senior season.

The other 7 hopefuls who went undrafted, and now become free agents are: Blake Boyd (Western Kentucky), Torris Magee (Southern Mississippi), Dixon McKinner (Texas Tech), Joe McMahon (Central Michigan), Demetrice Morley (Tennessee), Deon Murphy (Kansas State) and Corey Surrency (Florida State).