Welcome to the slow part of the 2023 offseason. It’s slow, but we have news: the NFL supplemental draft has returned with a date of July 11, per The Athletic’s Dane Brugler. Yeah, this is the closest thing to an NFL side act that we’ll get, but it at least gives us something to talk about. The supplemental draft isn’t required and the NFL can decide whether to run it or not.
We haven’t seen a supplemental draft for the last three years. The last one was in 2019. Why the NFL hasn’t ran one since is anyone’s guess but considering the time period, a certain pandemic may have had a hand in the “why”.