1 1990 1 1 Rob Moore WR NYJ 1990 1999 1 2 10 63 153 147 5 8 0 628 9368 49 Syracuse

2 1988 5 1 Ryan Bethea WR MIN 0 0 0 South Carolina

3 1987 4 3 Cris Carter WR PHI 1987 2002 2 8 13 98 234 209 13 41 0 1101 13899 130 Ohio St.

4 1984 1 9 Joey Jones WR ATL 1986 1986 0 0 0 1 11 2 1 7 0 7 141 0 Alabama

5 1984 1 16 Ricky Sanders WR NWE 1986 1995 0 0 4 52 134 66 23 94 1 483 6477 37 Texas St.

6 1984 1 20 Al Williams WR DET 1987 1987 0 0 0 2 3 3 1 11 0 12 247 1 Nevada-Reno

7 1984 1 23 Duane Gunn WR PIT 0 0 0 lndiana

8 1984 1 24 Derrick Crawford WR SFO 1986 1986 0 0 0 1 10 0 5 70 0 Memphis

9 1984 1 26 Danny Knight WR MIA 0 0 0 Mississippi St.

10 1984 1 28 Chris Woods WR RAI 1987 1989 0 0 0 0 12 1 1 14 0 Auburn

11 1984 2 37 Jim Sandusky WR NYJ 0 0 0 San Diego St.

12 1984 2 44 Gerald McNeil WR CLE 1986 1990 0 1 0 6 76 0 4 61 0 29 380 2 Baylor

13 1984 2 46 Rick Massie WR DEN 1987 1988 0 0 0 2 13 4 16 283 4 Kentucky

14 1984 2 54 Malcolm Moore WR DAL 1987 1987 0 0 0 1 3 1 6 107 1 USC

15 1984 2 55 Gary Clark WR WAS 1985 1995 1 4 9 86 167 119 11 54 0 699 10856 65 James Madison

16 1984 3 62 Clarence Collins WR SDG 1987 1987 0 0 0 0 1 0 Illinois St.

17 1984 3 82 Duan Hanks WR MIA 0 0 0 S.F. Austin

18 1984 3 83 Clarence Verdin WR WAS 1986 1994 0 2 1 18 118 25 17 167 0 82 1329 7 La-Lafayette

19 1981 11 2 Chy Davidson WR NWE 1984 1985 0 0 0 0 4 0 Rhode Island

20 1980 9 2 Billy Mullins WR SDG 0 0 0 USC

21 1978 10 1 Johnnie Dirden WR HOU 1978 1981 0 0 0 0 26 0 Sam Houston St.

It looks to me like Gordon is the first WR to go in a supp draft since 1990?

Note: All those 1984 picks were from the USFL supplemental draft. Browns also got the likes of Kevin Mack and Mike Johnson in that draft.

Edit note: Numbers in red reflect a quality career from the supp draft WRs. Ice Cube special team numbers not reflected.

@miktoxic said:

i don't get the whole supplemental draft thing. why weren't these players in the regular NFL draft?

When Bernie came out the rules were different. You had to have your NCAA eligibility expire before you were draft eligible....or if you had graduated you could come out. There was no three year rule. Essentially it was a four year rule.

In Bernie's case, he graduated from Miami in three years. He was not eligible for the April draft, but after he got his diploma in June he was then eligible to declare for the Supplemental draft.

Bernie had choices: A. He could have stayed another year at Miami, but he had his friend Vinny who was ready to play. So Bernie chose to come out. B. I believe it was basically all worked out between the Browns/Bills and Bernie to manipulate the Supp draft so that the Browns could take him. If he didn't know that it was the Browns that he was going to, he may have stayed.

Various reasons. Most players aren't very noteworthy, but every once in awhile you'll get an interesting story line. Kind of odd that we had an interesting player come through the Supplemental Draft two years in a row.