Silly NFL.com

I was bouncing around the internet yesterday. Just checking various sites for NFL news in this somewhat slow time before the opening of training camps. I discovered a 2013 Supplemental mock draft on NFL.com. This was a fairly stunning discovery. Regular draft mock drafts are very fun and a little sad. A mock draft for the Supplemental draft is just sad. There's really no point to it, at all. It's essentially seven rounds of 32 teams passing their selection. There's only six players in this Thursday's Supplemental Draft. If all six players are selected, which is highly unlikely, that's 218 passes. That sounds like a fun thing to predict. Once the shock of someone actually doing a Supplemental mock draft wore off, I had to check this out for myself. I was relieved to find this:

Editor's Note: Mayock and Kiper own April. NFL.com's exclusive supplemental draft expert Henry Hodgson owns July.

After working through film on all six of the supplemental draft-eligible players, here's his first look at a mock ahead of Thursday's much-anticipated supplemental draft.

Ah, NFL.com people were having some fun. The NFL Network folks like to have fun. I've come to expect that. Some of the interactions between the game day and draft personalities are hilarious. I haven't always seen the same sense of humor on the NFL's website. Most NFL business is serious. Even the Supplemental draft is a serious event. Seeing someone on the NFL payroll joke about the mostly tedious and often ridiculous process that is the Supplemental Draft was a surprise. I loved it. 

Supplemental draft expert Henry Hodgson went through every pick in each of the seven rounds. He even had the forfeited pick of the Tampa bay Buccaneers in the third round. They have no pick in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft so they have no pick in this supplemental draft. Same with the picks involved in a trade between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys in the fifth round. Yes, Henry Hodgson has the Supplemental Draft covered. Hodgson predicts that there will be 223 passes in the 2013 Supplemental draft. All teams pass on the six players available but one. He predicts that the Detroit Lions will select Houston receiver Dewayne Peace in the seventh round. 

It's nice to see the NFL monkey around with one of their events.