Supplemental Stuff

I'm spending way too much time on the Supplemental Draft.

No one was selected in the 2013 NFL Supplemental Draft. That hasn't happened since 2004. All six players that weren't selected on Thursday are free agents.

This part is much more interesting.

Instead of wasting their time with the Supplemental Draft on Thursday, several NFL teams attended a workout by former Stony Brook offensive tackle Michael Bamiro. At 6'8" and 344 lbs, he's an intriguing prospect. He also found himself in an interesting situation. He started his academic career at the University of Pittsburgh-Titusville in 2008. His five potential years of athletic eligibility started then even though he played no sport. Why this is a rule is lost on me but it's the NCAA. What can you do? Bamiro was enrolled at Pittsburgh-Titusville as a no-sport-playing college student when he decided to give football a shot. At his size, that's no real shock. He transferred to Stony Brook. He was a redshirt in 2009 and played for the Stony Brook Seawolves from 2010-12. He was under the impression that he had one year of eligibility remaining. He had received his bachelor's degree in journalism and was expecting to return to Stony Brook as a graduate student for his senior season. This is where the NCAA stepped in and shattered those plans. His five years of potential eligibility ended after the 2012 season despite playing football, let alone any sport, for only three seasons. Stony Brook sought a waiver that the NCAA, of course, denied. Since no one (the NFL, Stony Brook, Michael Bamiro, and apparently even the NCAA) knew that Bamiro was eligible for the 2013 NFL Draft in April he wasn't a part of that draft. Since he was eligible for the regular draft, but not eligible for another year of college eligibility, he was not eligible for the Supplemental Draft. He was a football player without a draft. That's why the big offensive tackle from Stony Brook was drawing the attention of a bunch of NFL people while six other football players were being ignored on Thursday. Michael Bamiro will be in an NFL training camp in a couple of weeks.