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The NFL's 2015 Supplemental Draft will take place on July 9. It might not amount to much of an early-July NFL attention-grabber. No team has selected a player in the Supplemental Draft since 2012. Only 42 players have been selected in the 38 years that the draft has been held. And only a few of those have made any sort of an impact in the league. Sometimes it's a source of new football talent. Mostly it's not. The NFL has announced that seven players are eligible to be selected in next week's draft.

Darrius Caldwell, DE, West Georgia
Adrian Wilkins, WR, North Carolina Central
Dalvon Stuckey, DT, West Georgia
Isaiah Battle, T, Clemson

The presence of those four players have been know for a while. Battle is the one player that might have the talent and potential that might entice some NFL team to spend a pick. If a team selects a player in the Supplemental Draft they forfeit the pick in the corresponding round of the next regular draft. It's a significant price to pay. Battle might be worth that price to a team in the 4th-7th round. Until yesterday, I thought that those were the only four players that were entering next week's draft. Three more will be eligible.

Eric Eiland, DE, Houston
Sean McQuillan, TE, Connecticut
Kevin Short, CB, Kansas

Short could intrigue a few teams. The only problem is that he hasn't played football since 2012 when he was at Fort Scott Community College. He never played a snap at Kansas. He redshirted in 2013 for academic reasons. He left the team and school last September for undisclosed. reasons. He was a top JC recruit and considered a very promising contributor to the Jayhawks secondary. At 6-2 and 185 lbs. he has nice size for a corner. He also has pro potential. Selecting Short in the Supplemental Draft might too much of a gamble. Even with a 7th-round pick but he might be worth a look as an undrafted free agent.

The excitement of the 2015 Supplemental Draft hits next Thursday.