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🏈 Not chosen in draft 🪖 Not fit for service
undraftable

undraftable

1 7.4
Not able to be chosen by teams for the official player selection because of injury or rules
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈdræftəbl/
  • Jargon
: no seleccionable
  • The coach decided to focus on healthy athletes, leaving those who were undraftable out of the team's roster.

Examples

  • Injuries made many of last season's stars undraftable, limiting their chances to join the league.

  • He could have been making movies while the actors serving were away (as did many undraftable actors), but did not.

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  • Due to their injuries, several players remained undraftable for this year's sports selection.

Antonyms

draftable
  • US
1 4.9

Can be chosen in a sports or military draft

Surface Forms

undraftable positive

Morphology

undraftable = draftable (transparent) = un + draft + able

The negative prefix 'un-' is simply added to 'draftable' (able to be selected in a draft), yielding 'not suitable/eligible for selection' in sports contexts.

Etymology

Undraftable breaks into un- ('not'), draft ('to pick or select'), and -able ('able to'). So it describes a player who is 'not able to be chosen' in a team draft, for example because of injury, records, or new rules.