I may be mis-remembering but I'm pretty sure Roy said (during one of his streams) that they reached out to one other player (didn't specifically name Naded but it was pretty obvious) to gauge that person's interest. He told them he was not interested so they went to Commonly.
Sounds a lot to me like if Naded would have been interested there was a fairly high chance he would have been EG's 4th. Maybe Naded was never *officially* offered, but that's kind of splitting hairs.
Edit: @ beat me by 1 whole minute.. dang gotta be fast around here.