kelly Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 he NFL Owners meetings kick off this week and the two big things to track are, 1) the potential rules changes and 2) the dispersal of 2015 NFL Draft compensatory picks. The latter typically happens today (Monday). The comp pick formula is an NFL proprietary secret and it's apparently very convoluted, but over the past few years, analysts have gotten better at predicting which teams get picks. The very basic idea is that teams are awarded bonus draft picks for losing big free agents (as compensation, get it?), and the size of each free agent's contract, and their subsequent performance and post-season honors are all taken into consideration for which round the departed free agent is worth (Round 3 is the highest possible). The comp pick formula then crosses off potential comp picks when the team in question signs a free agent to an equal or similar contract to that of their departed player (APY). Cut players don't count. Your own free agents don't count. "Street free agents" signed after June 1st don't count.Teams can receive a maximum of four comp picks, and the Seahawks are projected to be one of the teams that get the maximum four picks. According to OverTheCap's projection, those four will be a Fourth, two Fifths, and a Sixth. These picks result from the Seahawks losing four "big" to "mid-level" free agents on the open market last year while they concentrated on re-signing their own guys to extensions. Gone were Golden Tate ($6.2M APY in Detroit), Brandon Browner ($5.05M APY in New England), Breno Giacomini ($4.5M APY in New York), and Clinton McDonald ($3M APY in Tampa Bay), and after those guys, the Hawks also lost Walter Thurmond, Paul McQuistan, and Chris Maragos, but again, you can only get four comp picks. Because Seattle made no big-time outside signings (Kevin Williams was post-June-1st, as was Eric Winston, and Terrelle Pryor was acquired in a trade), all four should go through. Now, John Schneider had been saying that the team should have ten total picks so he's only counting on three comp picks -- and I believe that's because he doesn't want to count his chickens before they've hatched, so to speak -- but Seattle should really have 11 total if these projections end up correct.Their draft would look like this, going in, if OverTheCap ends up correct: a Second Rounder, a Third, three Fourths, three Fifths, two Sixths, and a Seventh. The Hawks lost their native Sixth Round pick in trading for Marcus Burley last year but gained New York's by trading Percy Harvin. They added New Orleans' Fourth Round pick after trading away their First and Max Unger to the Saints. Of course, this is all projection. The Seahawks could conceivably receive only three picks, or on the other end of the spectrum, the haul could be two Fourths, a Fifth, and a Sixth. We should know by the end of the day. > http://www.fieldgulls.com/2015/3/23/8277603/nfl-owners-meetings-compensatory-picks-to-be-awarded-monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 uggggghh! ..computer issues. sorry ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patman Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 The article has Browner at over 5 mill, his contract ended up being a one year deal at 2.5 mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Mart Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 @Ravens: #Ravens have received three compensatory picks. Two fourth-rounders and a fifth-rounder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Mart Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 @RichCimini: As expected, the Jets weren't awarded any compensatory draft picks. #nyj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinamite Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 who did the pats lose that merited a third round pick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patman Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 who did the pats lose that merited a third round pick? Talib - 6 years 57 mill with the broncos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinamite Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Talib - 6 years 57 mill with the broncos oh yeah. thanks. there are some teams that use this compensatory system very well. Pats and Ravens come to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patman Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 oh yeah. thanks. there are some teams that use this compensatory system very well. Pats and Ravens come to mind. It would have been nice to sign him, but he got hurt for the 2 years he played for the pats in the playoffs, goes to the broncos and does not miss a game all year. The pats lucked out with that signing, they traded a forth and got him for two years for 6mill total and then got a 3rd comp for the guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 You can't dominate the compensatory market every year. As expected, the New York Jets weren't awarded any compensatory draft picks for 2015, the NFL announced Monday night.Barring a trade, they will go into the April 30 draft with five draft choices -- one pick in each of the first four rounds, plus a seventh-round choice. They traded their fifth-round pick for Brandon Marshall and the sixth-rounder went to the Seattle Seahawks to complete the Percy Harvin trade from last October. A year ago, the Jets received four compensatory picks because of major losses in free agency in 2013, but their free-agent gains outweighed the losses last season. They lost only one significant unrestricted free agent, tackle Austin Howard, while adding Eric Decker and Breno Giacomini. It doesn't look like they will get any compensatory love in 2016, either. So far, they've suffered only two minor losses, Kenrick Ellis and Phillip Adams. > http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/jets/post/_/id/50117/no-compensatory-draft-picks-for-jets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 A total of 32 compensatory choices in the upcoming 2015 NFL Draft have been awarded to 14 teams, the NFL announced Monday at the NFL Annual Meeting in Arizona. 2015 NFL DRAFT Mock drafts: Jeremiah 4.0: Bears rebuild at QB Casserly 1.0: Browns trade up Baldinger 1.0: Mariota falls to Browns Zierlein 2.0: Seahawks land RB Brooks 2.0: 2 RBs go in first round Davis 2.0: 5 WRs in first round journeys 2015 pro days schedule and results Draft rumors connecting players, teams Top 50 draft picks in NFL history CFB 24/7: Full 'Path to Draft' coverage Under the rules, a team losing more or better compensatory free agents than it acquires in the previous year is eligible to receive compensatory draft picks. The number of picks a team receives equals the net loss of compensatory free agents up to a maximum of four. The 2015 NFL Draft takes place April 30 through May 2 and will be televised live on NFL Network. Here are the teams receiving compensatory picks this year, with the round and overall number of each pick : Kansas City Chiefs: 3rd round (98), 5th round (172), 5th round (173), 6th round (217) Denver Broncos: 4th round (133), 6th round (208), 7th round (250), 7th round (251) Seattle Seahawks: 4th round (134), 5th round (170), 6th round (209), 6th round (214) Baltimore Ravens: 4th round (136), 5th round (171), 5th round (175) Houston Texans: 5th round (174), 6th round (211), 6th round (216) New England Patriots: 3rd round (97), 7th round (253) Cincinnati Bengals: 3rd round (99), 4th round (135) San Francisco 49ers: 4th round (132), 7th round (254) Carolina Panthers: 5th round (169), 6th round (213) Green Bay Packers: 6th round (210), 6th round (212) St. Louis Rams: 6th round (215) Pittsburgh Steelers: 7th round (252) Indianapolis Colts: 7th round (255) Arizona Cardinals: 7th round (256) > http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000480988/article/chiefs-seahawks-broncos-lead-2015-compensatory-draft-picks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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