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NFL Supplemental Draft: How it works, who is eligible, and when it is

By George Stockburger

LANDOVER, MD - SEPTEMBER 03: Cornerback Adonis Alexander #36 of the Virginia Tech Hokies gestures to the crowd against the West Virginia Mountaineers at FedExField on September 3, 2017 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
LANDOVER, MD - SEPTEMBER 03: Cornerback Adonis Alexander #36 of the Virginia Tech Hokies gestures to the crowd against the West Virginia Mountaineers at FedExField on September 3, 2017 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /
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ARLINGTON, TX – APRIL 26: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium on April 26, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TX – APRIL 26: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium on April 26, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /

How it works

For the NFL Supplemental Draft, the league breaks all 32 teams into three tiers: non-playoff teams with six wins or fewer, non-playoff teams with more than six wins, and playoff teams.

Each of those tiers goes into a weighted lottery to determine the order with the team with the worst-winning percentage having the best odds to have the highest picks.

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Here’s each tier with teams listed in random order:

Tier 1: Cleveland, New York, Indianapolis, New York, Denver, Houston, San Francisco, Oakland, Miami, Chicago, Tampa Bay

Tier 2: Cincinnati, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington, Detroit, Green Bay, Seattle, Arizona

Tier 3: New England, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Minnesota, New Orleans, Carolina, Los Angeles

Each team will put in a bid for when it wants to use a pick for a certain player without direct knowledge of when their pick is in each round. Formulas and rational will tell you when each team expects to be picking, especially if they had a worse winning percentage compared to others.

If a team in the third round puts in a bid for a certain player and their team is the first in that round to hit on the player, then they are awarded that player.

When a team uses a draft pick on a player, they will lose a pick from that same round in the 2019 NFL Draft.

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