The NFL supplemental draft will take place Wednesday with five players eligible to be selected by any of the league’s 32 teams. Just don’t count on the Steelers being active participants.
The supplemental draft has been around since 1977, and the Steelers have never used a supplemental draft choice.
The supplemental draft was instituted so players with circumstances such as eligibility or disciplinary issues could enter the NFL if they didn’t declare for the spring draft. Here’s how it works: Teams bid on players using draft choices from their pool for the next draft. If a team is awarded a player with the pick they submitted, they won’t have a draft choice in that round the following year.