04-26-2020, 12:42 PM
(04-26-2020, 12:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't think players can just chose to be in the supplemental draft instead of the regular draft. Aren't there specidic rules for which players are included in the supplemental draft.
Yes there are, but we're in unusual and (mostly) unprecedented times so exceptions could be made. If the 2020 NCAA football season were to be cancelled, it creates an interesting problem that will invariably lead to some sort of emergency 'one time only' provision.
If there's no NCAA season (a BIG if), then waiting until next April for the NFL to draft kids that haven't played in over a year would be...interesting. It'd be far better, for both the college athletes and the NFL, in that highly hypothetical situation, to let the kids that would have left after the 2020 season (Seniors and those eligible to declare) go in the supplemental draft if they'll have a chance to stay in shape and play that way. Anyone not drafted should be allowed to return to college (hiring of agents would have to be navigated carefully).
Because this would impact the NFL (drafting kids who haven't played in 18 months with 1.5 year old tape would be AWFUL), I'd also expect that they'd modify the rules to any hypothetical massive supplemental draft, again in a one time only kind of scenario.
Granted, this is all speculation based on an unlikely and, as of yet, still only hypothetical cancelling of the 2020 NCAA football season. If the season goes on, obviously no massive special supplemental draft.
