Arizona Cardinals safety Jalen Thompson was acquired through the supplemental draft in 2019. He has been great.
However, the Cardinals will not have the opportunity to find another gem in the supplemental draft this year.
According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the league informed the 32 teams that there will be no supplemental draft this summer.
Per the collective bargaining agreement, the league makes the decision to hold the supplemental draft for players with special eligibility. These are players who were not eligible for the traditional NFL draft but applied to be able to play in the next NFL season without having to return to college for another season.
In some cases, a player is suspended for the next college season or there is a coaching change that makes the player rethink returning to his school.
That will not happen this year.
Since the Cardinals moved to Arizona, they have selected three players in the supplemental draft.
Thompson was the most recent in 2018 in the fifth round. They selected quarterback Timm Rosenbach in the first round of the 1989 supplemental draft and offensive lineman Willie Williams in the ninth round of the 1990 supplemental draft.
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