Given that the NFL draft and the lead-up to the draft have become so remarkably over-exposed, is there anything about the NFL that is under-exposed at this point? Or at least not over-exposed? Maybe the answer is no, but today’s trivia questions at least look at the hidden part of the draft: the supplemental draft.
After producing Steve Young and Bernie Kosar in the 1980s, the supplemental draft mostly went dead at producing quarterbacks from 1990 until Terrelle Pryor in 2011. Who is the only quarterback that was drafted in the supplemental during that time?
The Giants gave up their 1993 first-round pick to select Dave Brown out of Duke in the 1992 supplemental draft. Brown lost his starting job in 1997 to Danny Kanell, which is information enough about how drafting Brown turned out.
Just as only one quarterback was selected in the supplemental draft in the 90s, there was only one quarterback chosen in the supplemental draft in the 1970s. Can you name him?
Trivia hint #2: He was traded to the San Diego Chargers for first- and second-round draft choices, one of which his original team used to draft a future Hall-of-Fame running back.
Answer: The Cincinnati Bengals picked Clint Longley in the 1974 supplemental draft before trading him to the Dallas Cowboys. One famous fourth-quarter comeback apparently went to Longley’s head. He punched Roger Staubach, leading to Longley’s trade to the Chargers. That worked out well for the Cowboys. They drafted Tony Dorsett with one of the picks, while Longley threw just 24 passes for the Chargers.
