Several wrestlers were made free agents due to injury, inactivity, or simply not being drafted despite being an active member of the rosters.

Neither lost their respective championship before the October 22 episode of SmackDown, the night that the draft results went into effect.

The day of the show, WWE announced that Flair and Lynch would exchange titles to keep the championships on their respective brands while going off script.

Mia Yim, Hit Row's B-Fab, Nia Jax, Karrion Kross, and Keith Lee were among those who were released, without a single appearance post-draft.

Among those not drafted who were released included Eva Marie and Lucha House Party (Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado).

[14] On November 18, the remainder of Hit Row, John Morrison, Tegan Nox, Shane Thorne, Drake Maverick, and Jaxson Ryker were also released.

[15] Not long after, Jeff Hardy would be released on December 9 after being sent home from a live event tour and refusing rehab.

[20] By proxy, this allowed other members of The Bloodline stable (Sami Zayn, Solo Sikoa, who was promoted from NXT to SmackDown in September, and the group's manager Paul Heyman) to appear on both brands.

[22] Azeez returned to his previous ring name of Dabba-Kato after he turned on Crews at NXT Vengeance Day in February 2023.

[27] The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor, Damian Priest, Dominik Mysterio, and Rhea Ripley), a stable formed on Raw after WrestleMania 38, began appearing on SmackDown after Ripley won the 2023 women's Royal Rumble match and chose to challenge for the SmackDown Women's Championship, which she subsequently won at WrestleMania 39.

stable in their feud with The Judgment Day), and Hit Row (Ashante Adonis, Top Dolla, and B-Fab), Tegan Nox, and Karrion Kross and his real-life fiancé, Scarlett, returning on SmackDown.

[30] A draft was not held in 2022, and with multiple wrestlers appearing on both shows almost weekly, some sources believed that the brand split was coming to an end.

However, in April 2023, Triple H announced the 2023 draft to bring back a definitive roster division between Raw and SmackDown.