Navigating NFL's Supplemental Draft: A Prospective Look

I was taken in the supplemental draft and Brian Bosworth and a bunch of guys like Chris Carter, we went out in 87. And from my understanding, Jacob, the NFL has never denied anybody an opportunity to go into a supplemental draft. Were you okay with what and how the NFL handled the Brendan Soresby story? Because it looks like now he's got to wait until the 2027 NFL draft and that's yet to be determined whether or not a team will overlook the gambling. Now that all of this has come out, does this make it even harder for him to potentially get into that NFL draft and actually get drafted next April? I think it's going to be a big concern, but in a strange way, I kind of think it might benefit him not to be in the supplemental draft because the element of time and I get that he's not going to be playing anywhere this 2026 season and that's going to have a massive impact on, you know, seeing how is he going to develop? What's he going to look like during the pre-draft process? But basically by not going into the supplemental draft, I don't know if there was a settlement on this, but the NFL has seemingly said Soresby will be allowed to participate in the pre-draft stuff, whether it's college all-star games, the NFL combine, pro day workouts, all that sort of stuff. So I think he probably looked at it and said, hey, if I go in this supplemental draft, like, yeah, maybe I would get drafted somewhere and get a chance to play in the NFL. But if he had gone undrafted through that process, then trying to get into the league after that would have been really difficult for him. It would have put him in a time crunch to just trying to get to a team, learn a system, prove that he can belong there, all with the gambling stuff hanging over his head. So strangely, I think this is probably the best outcome for both sides. Again, not ideal for Soresby's purpose that he can't play this year anywhere, but I think time kind of heals all wounds a little bit when we get to next April. If Soresby has good answers about, you know, like, what has he done to kind of stem this problem that he has, try to alleviate concerns with the teams, I think it'll give him a better chance of being drafted and sticking around the NFL. I completely one thousand percent agree with you. I think that supplemental draft is horrible and it stunts the growth and development of all players. Very rarely has anybody come out of that and really gone on and done any kind of success in the NFL. There's only two guys I can think of, and that's Bernie Kosar and Chris Carter here.