Packers Calendar: NFL Supplemental Draft

Former Baylor wide receiver Josh Gordon and TCU running back Ed Wesley headline today's Supplemental Draft.

The NFL's annual Supplemental Draft takes place on Thursday afternoon with eight players eligible for selection, most of them coming with some baggage.

One player is nearly guaranteed to be chosen and that's former Baylor wide receiver Josh Gordon, according to Daniel Jeremiah of NFL.com.

Given the Green Bay Packers' depth at the wide receiver position, it's unlikely they'll give up what it takes to land Gordon.

Some wide receiver-needy team will probably be more willing to give up more than what the Packers would.

The question, from a Packers perspective, is whether they'd be willing to part with a late-round draft choice for any of the other eligible players.

About the only other prospects with even a remote chance at being drafted today are TCU running back Ed Wesley and Carson Newman linebacker Larry Lumpkin, and neither of them are locks to be selected.

Wesley would seemingly fill a need for the Packers because of their lack of depth at the running back position, but his less-than-stellar 4.68 40-yard dash time in a workout earlier this week was a turnoff.

The Packers have reportedly inquired about Lumpkin, but giving up a draft choice for a lower-level player that flunked out of school would seem to be a long shot.

Players that are not drafted are eligible to be signed as free agents following the draft.

If I were going to give a prediction, I'd say the only player the Packers might have interest in is Wesley, but even then, I think they'd be more willing to take the chance of signing him as a free agent once the draft is done.

It should be noted that the Packers' roster is currently full, so they'd have to cut someone in order to make room for any draft choice or any signing.

Elsewhere on the Packers calendar, the Green Bay Packers Youth Football Camps in Oshkosh and Kenosha continue on Thursday.

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