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A private drawing is held by the NFL to determine how the first 13 picks shake out. Then the next drawing is conducted for the non-playoff teams, and lastly the playoff teams. Once the order is decided, each team has 10 minutes to submit its draft selections. It submits picks by e-mail without knowing of other clubs’ intentions. If five teams submit picks for a player in the first round, the team with the best draft position gets the pick. In exchange, it must give up its first-round pick in next year’s draft. If it does not have a first-round pick in 2005, it cannot submit a selection for a player in the first round.
Each round takes approximately 10 minutes. At the end of the round, the NFL informs every club as to which team won the rights to a player.
How the supplemental draft works
The supplemental draft order is based on three separate lotteries  one for the 12 teams who finished with six or fewer wins, one for the eight non-playoff teams with more than six wins and a final lottery for the 12 playoff teams. Each team receives a proportionate number of tokens based on their position in the 2005 regular draft (San Francisco has 32, Miami has 31, Cleveland 30, all the way down to the Patriots with one).
A private drawing is held by the NFL to determine how the first 13 picks shake out. Then the next drawing is conducted for the non-playoff teams, and lastly the playoff teams. Once the order is decided, each team has 10 minutes to submit its draft selections. It submits picks by e-mail without knowing of other clubs’ intentions. If five teams submit picks for a player in the first round, the team with the best draft position gets the pick. In exchange, it must give up its first-round pick in next year’s draft. If it does not have a first-round pick in 2005, it cannot submit a selection for a player in the first round.
Each round takes approximately 10 minutes. At the end of the round, the NFL informs every club as to which team won the rights to a player.