The WWE Draft is upon us! Tonight the WWE roster will be up for grabs with FOX and USA as the top two bidders. Earlier this year, WWE announced the wild card rule in an attempt to show that superstars from each brand could cross over. Sadly, this ridiculous rule caused confusing storylines while failing to improve the WWE’s ratings. With Smackdown now airing on FOX on Friday nights, WWE, USA, and FOX look to solidify each brand’s roster. What WWE superstars are eligible for the draft and how will it affect the WWE landscape leading up to Wrestlemania?
During the early 2000s, the WWE found itself with an influx of talent after acquiring WCW. Because of this increase in talent, WWE started Smackdown. Prior to moving to the USA network, Smackdown aired on the UPN network. Now with Smackdown returning to Friday nights, a new WWE draft is in the works. Tonight will be the first night of the draft where 30 superstars will be up for grabs. Not all of the big-name talent will be eligible to be drafted tonight. The first draft will be decided by a match between Seth Rollins (Raw) and Roman Reigns (Smackdown). Below are the official draft rules according:
WWE Draft Rules
More than 70 Superstars, including Tag Teams, have been placed into this year’s WWE Draft pool.
30 Superstars will be eligible to be drafted tomorrow night while 41 Superstars will be eligible on Monday Night.
Since Friday Night SmackDown is a two-hour show and Monday Night Raw is a three-hour show, for every two SmackDown picks, Raw will get three.
Tag Teams will count as one pick unless FOX or USA Network specifically wants to pick one Superstar from the team.
Any undrafted Superstars will immediately be declared free agents and able to sign with the brand of their choosing.
This could mean undrafted WWE talent could head over to NXT to give the Wednesday night show star power it needs to compete against AEW in the Wednesday Night Wars. Hopefully, this division of talent will push less used WWE superstars to attention. Here are the 71 superstars eligible to be drafted and the nights they are available.
WWE Superstars
Friday Night SmackDown – Oct. 11
Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch
Roman Reigns
The O.C. (United States Champion AJ Styles, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson)
”The Fiend” Bray Wyatt
Drew McIntyre
Randy Orton
Sasha Banks
Ricochet
Braun Strowman
Bobby Lashley
Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
Lacey Evans
The Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar)
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder)
Natalya
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins)
Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik, Lince Dorado)
Cesaro
Kevin Owens
Humberto Carrillo
Akira Tozawa
Sin Cara
Eric Young
EC3
Chad Gable
Heath Slater
Drew Gulak
The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel)
Tamina
Raw – Oct. 14
Universal Champion Seth Rollins
WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair
Titus O’Neil
Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (with Sami Zayn)
Aleister Black
The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E & Xavier Woods)
Daniel Bryan
Bayley
Luke Harper
Erick Rowan
The Miz
Ali
King Corbin
Elias
Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode
Samoa Joe
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)
Rusev
Cedric Alexander
Rey Mysterio
R-Truth
Carmella
AOP (Akam & Rezar)
Heavy Machinery (Tucker & Otis)
Apollo Crews
Andrade
Liv Morgan
Jinder Mahal
Buddy Murphy
Mojo Rawley
No Way José
Dana Brooke
Shelton Benjamin
Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
The IIconics (Billie Kay & Peyton Royce)
Sarah Logan
Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville)
Drake Maverick
How will this Draft impact WWE 2K20 when the game releases? What superstars that are currently missing from the list of eligible superstars would you like to see on Raw or Smackdown? Let us know in the comment section down below
