With COVID-19 threatening to postpone or cancel the college football season, there has been speculation that more prospects may enter this year’s supplemental draft than usual.
Touchdown Wire put together a good primer on the supplement draft here. During his post-draft Zoom conference call with reporters on April 25, Broncos general manager John Elway indicated that this year’s supplemental draft class might be larger than usual.
“We have talked about the possibility of more kids coming back out, especially with the uncertainty of the college season and where that sits,” Elway said.
“Each week and each day we find out more and more information of where everything’s going. I would think with the situation that there is a possibility that there’d be more kids in the supplemental draft especially kids that were thinking about coming out.”
If a team uses a pick in the supplemental draft, they forfeit their selection in the next year’s draft in the corresponding round. For example, if Denver used a third-round pick in this year’s supplemental draft, they wouldn’t have a third-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.
The Broncos selected Alabama running back Bobby Humphrey in the first round of the 1989 supplemental draft. They haven’t made any other supplemental picks since then.
