NFL Supplemental Draft 2013: No players selected

The NFL Supplemental Draft will be held on Thursday with six players making themselves eligible. As is often the case, the players eligible for the Supplemental Draft are far from household names.

To get a better idea of who the players are and what kind of NFL impact they may have, we enlisted the help from several writers around the SB Nation network. The Q&As with those writers can be found below.

2012 stats: 56 receptions, 474 yards, two touchdowns

O.J. Ross’ career at Purdue can be viewed as a little bit of a disappointment, and not just because of the off-field issues. He was a highly regarded recruit whose production never quite matched up with what may have been expected. Part of that can be attributed to how he was utilized at Purdue, and the middling quarterback play, but some of it is on Ross as well.

It’s somewhat odd in today’s pass-heavy football to see a wide receiver with speed be somewhat deficient as a vertical threat. Ross averaged just 8.5 yards per catch in 2012, a season in which he finished with 56 receptions for 474 yards. Ross had a decent catch rate last season at 69.1 percent, according to numbers compiled by SB Nation’s Bill Connelly. Ross just doesn’t generate a lot of positive yards on a consistent basis.

2012 stats: 54 receptions, 603 yards, two touchdowns

Dewayne Peace’s long and winding college career eventually led him to Houston. Out of high school, Peace originally committed to Michigan. He decommitted after being asked to play cornerback. He landed at Arizona and redshirted. After his redshirt freshman season, he transferred out to Blinn College (which you may remember as the former home of Cam Newton). Finally he finished out at Houston.

His career in the potent offense probably didn’t go as expected. He played sparingly in 2011. Last season, he was Houston’s leading receiver with 54 receptions for 603 yards and two touchdowns. But he was suspended three games in 2012 for an undisclosed violation of team rules. He left Houston after being ruled academically ineligible.