Chicago Bears should consider these Supplemental Draft prospects

It’s unknown whether or not the Chicago Bears will take a rare dip into the Supplemental Draft waters. However, there is some intrigue with the major candidates.

If you aren’t familiar with how this process works, here’s how it works. Each team in the NFL gets split up into three groups depending on how their season played out. Group one is for the teams that won only six or fewer game. Group two is for teams that won at least six games but wound up missing the playoffs. The final group includes the playoff teams. In this particular case, the Chicago Bears fall in the first grouping.

When groups are established, a modified lottery decides the draft order for each group. In this instance, the squads with the worst records will have a better shot at landing the top selection for their group. So the Cleveland Browns have the definitive best shot at landing the top pick, but they cannot fall out of the first group. The same thing goes for teams in the second and third groupings.

Once the draft order is set with all three groups, each team makes their bid(s) to Roger Goodell with each player they are interested in and what round they want that player. Whichever team places the highest bid on a specific player gets the rights to draft him. Should there be more than one team that places a bid in the same round, then the team with the higher selection in that round gets the player’s rights.

The catch with all of this is that if your team winds up drafting a player, then they forfeit the corresponding selection in the normal NFL Draft next year. If Chicago spends a third-round pick in July, they lose a third rounder next year. To put it simply, these draft selections are rare.

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