WWE Draft 2019: 10 Things That Need To Happen

6. The Supplemental Draft

WWE Supplemental Draft
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Consider this 'WWE: The WCW Years' in terms of roster scale. Bolstered by a fear of letting anyone free to sign for the myriad of competitors out there, WWE are hoarding talent across multiple divisions right now. By next week, Raw, SmackDown, NXT, NXT UK and maybe 205 Live (if it survives) will have their own bespoke locker rooms.

That's literally hundreds of wrestlers, and it makes deciding their fates live on five hours of TV impossible.

WWE just have too many names under contract to do it all on SmackDown and Raw this coming Friday and Monday. That necessitates an old chestnut that instantly makes most on the roster feel like they're throwaway names on a sheet of paper. Oh yes, the 'Supplemental Draft' will make a big comeback on either WWE.com, YouTube, the Network or all three.

There's no other way around it. If WWE wanted to throw up endless lists of wrestlers on screen this weekend, they'd only dilute things. The best course of action then is picking between 10-20 wrestlers per major brand and letting the computers crunch things later.

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