Spartans football player Agim Shabaj, after being declared academically ineligible for the fall season, will enter Thursday's NFL supplemental draft.
He will be one of seven players in the draft, Shabaj's agent Justin VanFulpen said.
Shabaj said he was declared ineligible after failing to put his student ID number on a chemistry final, causing the professor to throw out the exam score.
"He's a guy who's one of the top prospects in the supplemental draft," VanFulpen said.
The 5-foot-10, 190-pound receiver and kick returner will hold workouts for NFL teams Tuesday at his former high school, Farmington Hills-Harrison High School. Former Spartans quarterback Damon Dowdell will be there throwing passes to Shabaj, VanFulpen said.
Seven NFL teams confirmed they'll attend Shabaj's workout, including the Atlanta Falcons, Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots, but VanFulpen said more teams might attend.
VanFulpen also said six NFL teams will come to MSU on Monday to review film, although he said he didn't know which six teams would be on campus.
The supplemental draft is designed for college football players who are ineligible for the upcoming college football season and missed the application deadline for the main NFL draft. They can apply to the NFL for entrance into the supplemental draft, VanFulpen said.
The supplemental draft lasts seven rounds, and a lottery system determines the order of the draft, which is very similar to April's draft. Teams can choose not to draft any of the seven players - but if they do draft a player, they lose the pick in the same round in the 2006 draft.
For instance, if a team picks a player in the third round, it forfeits its third round pick in the 2006 draft.
VanFulpen said he thinks Shabaj will go in the sixth or seventh round of the draft.
Players who aren't chosen in the draft still have a chance to make it in the NFL by signing on as free agent with a team.
VanFulpen said teams are interested in using Shabaj as a kickoff returner and slowly working him into a receiver position. In unofficial workouts, Shabaj has 40 times between 4.34 and 4.38 and a 37-inch vertical jump.
Shabaj was the Spartans' third-leading receiver with 29 catches for 308 yards and one touchdown last year in an injury-plagued season.
He also averaged 8.2 yards on 18 punt returns. He had his most productive year in 2003 as MSU's leading receiver with 57 catches for 692 yards and 5 touchdowns.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
