Supplemental Draft Thought

[Cowgal]

Do you think we might use our newly acquired 2005 #1 pick to try and get Mike Williams in the Supplemental Draft?

[Hiero]

Do you think we might use our newly acquired 2005 #1 pick to try and get Mike Williams in the Supplemental Draft?
thats an interesting idea. I might evne do it depending.

[TheHustler]

highly doubt it. BP + JJ are content with our WR core i think. signing randall williams to a 2 year deal makes me think they will give him a chance this year to succeed. signing a rookie WR would hurt that.

[SkinsandTerps]

The supplemental draft is a lottery system that is broken into three groups.

1. Teams with 6 wins or less
2. Remaining teams that did not make the playoffs
3. Playoff teams

Teams are then weighted by their draft position in the previous draft (San Diego=32, Oakland=31 all the way down to New England=1). They then have three drawings, one for each different segment. So since there were 13 teams that finished with 6 or less wins, the first group has a total of 338 entries (32+31+30+29+.....+20 for the 13th team) and San Diego would have 32 of those entries. So San Diego would only have about a 9.5% chance of getting the 1st pick in the supplemental draft. Buffalo is the "last" team that would have a chance at getting the first pick in a supplemental draft, and their odds would be slightly less than 6%. After they determine the order for the first group of teams, they have a second drawing for the next group (non playoff teams with greater than six wins) and then a third drawing for the last group (playoff teams).

The picks cannot be traded. As far as I know the NFL determines the order, sends out the order to the teams and at that point the teams have either 10 or 15 minutes to put in their bid for a player. After that short span of time the NFL sits down and awards players to the team that put in the highest bid + has the best position in the round if multiple teams place a bid on a single player in a particular round. Of course, the team that is awarded the player forfeits their selection in the same round in the following regular NFL draft. And yes, a team must have that pick in the following draft to place a claim for that round. Say the Packer's trade their first round pick in 2005 for a player today, that would automatically eliminate them from placing a first round bid on a player in the supplemental draft.

Or in this case the Cowboys. Info from my draft board.

[Kevlee06]

highly doubt it. BP + JJ are content with our WR core i think. signing randall williams to a 2 year deal makes me think they will give him a chance this year to succeed. signing a rookie WR would hurt that.

You've got to be kidding me. You pass on a potential superstar WR because RANDALL WILLIAMS got a 2 year extension? Mike Williams comes in and is immediately the best WR on the team. If you can get that kind of an upgrade you take it.

[Clay_Allison]

You've got to be kidding me. You pass on a potential superstar WR because RANDALL WILLIAMS got a 2 year extension? Mike Williams comes in and is immediately the best WR on the team. If you can get that kind of an upgrade you take it.

Totally agree, Mike Williams is physicakky a 10 at the WR position. The future career of Terry Glenn is hardly worth passing on him, also I think if I read SkinsandTerps right, we would only forfeit the right to OUR pick. I don't think the Bills' pick would be involved.

Still, I can't imagine that a losing team would fail to jump on Williams like a rabid dog.