Purdue DT Ra’Zahn Howard Is Supplemental Draft’s Top Prospect, but NFL Long Shot

July 8, 2016   ·   Justis Mosqueda   ·   Jump to comments

The supplemental draft is a yearly event that can mean absolutely nothing or impact the NFL greatly. When players like Josh Gordon or Terrelle Pryor enter the alternative college draft, NFL franchises get into wars for the players, but those athletes are anomalies.
Since 2007, over the course of nine draft classes, there have only been eight draft selections through the supplemental draft, and five of them have been worth Day 3 selections, with Gordon, Pryor and Jeremy Jarmon—who made 11 tackles in his NFL career—being the Day 2-worthy choices.
By all accounts, this year's star of the class is defensive tackle Ra'Zahn Howard of Purdue, but what does that even mean?
In the 2008, 2013 and 2014 draft classes, the best player out of the supplemental pool wasn't even talented enough to warrant a future draft choice.
According to Chase Goodbread of NFL.com, Howard and five other players are available for teams to bid on: Tee Shepard, a defensive back who ...

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