The supplemental draft began in 1977 as a way to accommodate players who weren’t eligible for the upcoming college football season. Teams will make bids to the league for players in the supplemental draft pool. If they make a pick in the supplemental draft, they will have to forfeit a corresponding selection in the following year’s draft. That means if a team wins the rights to draft Boyd with fourth-round bid, they will lose the right for picking a player in the 2010 draft.
