ESPN News: Supreme Court Rejects Clarett's appeal

[BrudLee]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

I suspect that any team is allowed to draft anyone they want to draft. The NFL would not allow him to sign and play under current rules, but if you want to draft a 6 year old kid, I doubt the league would stop you from drafting him - or her.

Clarett will be eligible for the NFL in December because he graduated from high school in December three years ago. If he prevails in the appeals court and the league cannot get the Supreme Court to hear the case or if Clarett prevails in the Supreme Court this year (not likely the high court could get it on the docket and decided this year but one never knows), then Clarett could be in s Supplemental Draft. The NFL said that it would have such a draft withing 10 days of losing in court.

Curmudgeon, you bring about an interesting point. If someone (not you, Mr. Snyder) felt like "wasting" a pick on Clarett, would he receive his rights upon:
A) Successful appeal of the stay,
OR
B) The December anniversary of his graduation?
If either of the above occurred before his draft rights were revoked after a year, would the drafting team be allowed to sign him?
More to the point (since he is a much more skilled prospect), when is Mike Williams's three year anniversary?