The NFL has awarded compensatory draft picks for teams in the 2024 draft. Based on an add/subtract formula that covers the 2023 free agency period, comp picks span from Round 3 to Round 7. The higher picks go to the teams that endured the most significant free agent losses.
This year, the NFL awarded 34 comp picks. The comp pick formula assigns picks to franchises who suffered the largest net losses, so teams that signed multiple free agents have a lesser chance of receiving picks. The CBA limits the total compensatory number to 32, per Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com, who notes the Cowboys, Jaguars and Packers qualified for an additional comp pick based on the net loss formula.
The updated NFL format also rewards third-round comp picks to teams that saw a minority assistant coach land a head coaching job or a minority front office exec become a GM. Teams receive two third-round picks for losing an assistant or FO staffer to a top job, but the picks do not come in the same draft. The 49ers’ pipeline here is still flowing and will continue to do so into the 2025 draft, with Ran Carthon landing the Titans’ GM job last year and DeMeco Ryans becoming the Texans’ HC. The Rams collected the first of their two third-rounders for the Falcons’ Raheem Morris hire. The Buccaneers do not receive a comp pick for Dave Canales‘ Panthers move due to the Latino staffer being Tampa Bay’s OC for just one season.
Sorted by round and by team, here are the league’s 2024 compensatory selections.
By round:
Round 3: Jaguars (No. 96 overall), Eagles (No. 97), Rams (No. 98)*, 49ers (No. 99)*
Round 4: 49ers (No. 132), Bills (No. 133), Ravens (No. 134)
Round 5: Saints (No. 167), Packers (No. 168), Saints (No. 169), Eagles (No. 170), Eagles (No. 171), Chiefs (No. 172), Cowboys (No. 173), Saints (No. 174), 49ers (No. 175)
Round 6: Bengals (No. 208), Rams (No. 209), Eagles (No. 210), 49ers (No. 211), Jaguars (No. 212), Rams (No. 213), Bengals (No. 214), 49ers (No. 215), Cowboys (No. 216), Rams (No. 217), Jets (No. 218), Packers (No. 219), Buccaneers (No. 220)
Round 7: Chargers (No. 253), Rams (No. 254), Packers (No. 255), Jets (No. 256), Jets (No. 257)
* = special compensatory selection
By team:
- Los Angeles Rams: 5
- San Francisco 49ers: 5
- Philadelphia Eagles: 4
- Green Bay Packers: 3
- New Orleans Saints: 3
- New York Jets: 3
- Cincinnati Bengals: 2
- Dallas Cowboys: 2
- Jacksonville Jaguars: 2
- Baltimore Ravens: 1
- Buffalo Bills: 1
- Kansas City Chiefs: 1
- Los Angeles Chargers: 1
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 1
49ers killing it with the comp picks!! Now, they need to turn these picks into some quality depth, especially at OL/DB/LB/WR
The 9ers have beat the system for the last few years, while the rest of the league was asleep. 12 draft picks and a cheap quarterback is a deadly combination.
Yeah, they need to fix their OL depth, and the right side of their OL.
They need to find a replacement for Greenlaw who will be out likely all of next season, which is a MAJOR BLOW, and then they need to either find another outside corner or a Nickel, but they’ll have versatility with Lenoir being able to play either spot.
Then, they need some depth on their interuor DL and Edge spots, and they desperately need a solid presence across from Bosa.
Then, they could probably use some young speed at WR and a backup TE. Call it a day..lol
Oh, and they’ll likely need a backup QB as well with Darnold likely going elsewhere. Maybe Mac Jones for a comp 6th.?
Well, their Rooney Rule picks have had a lot to do with it, too. Salah, Ryans, and Carthon are all extra picks.
And yet still no ring to show for it but a sour Coach that can’t win the big one…
Teams get a 3rd round comp pick for losing a minority coach or executive. Teams lose a starter and get 5th and 6th round picks? Can they be more obvious?
It’s not a secret. The 9ers were just smarter.
Except in the Super Bowl.
Crock of crap
You shouldn’t be able to receive a comp pick for a player that isn’t on your team for the entire season. That’s how it works in other leagues. Otherwise when you trade for a rental, you end up getting a pick back anyways.
The in-season NFL trade deadline is by far the least active of all the other leagues. Maybe this would cause more action.
I feel like 3rd rounders should only be for players lost that were significant.
4ths too
Coaches thing should only be 5-7
Making them 3rd round comp picks makes teams want to put minority coaches and front office members in positions to succeed so they get picked up for GM or HC roles. That’s what the 49ers have been doing for years and only in the last year does it seem like other teams are catching on. If it was after the 4th round, there wouldn’t be a ton of incentive to do that. FWIW, the top of the top free agent comp picks (by FA contract) come before the coaches such as like with losing Tom Brady. This year it was Jawaan Taylor and Javon Hargrave. You can point to it not being “fair”, but all 32 teams have the same opportunity to get the JC-2A resolution picks.
Meritocracy is the only real and fair solution. The rest is pandering bs
@JM108 @locotrouble @elly de la burrow you guys are not understanding at all. If they gave the comp picks to the hiring team, then it would be “pandering bs” because then teams would hire minority coaches just for the picks. That would be hiring without merit. If you give the comp picks to the team losing the HC/GM, then you are rewarding teams for putting minority assistants in a position to succeed. A rival team isn’t going to hire someone who is a minority for a head coach unless they are extremely deserving of that position knowing that it is going to give their rivals two third round picks! If I am the 49ers front office, I am not hiring a minority assistant from the Chiefs unless they are extremely deserving because it gives the Chiefs two free 3rd round picks! Do you see how that it is not “pandering bs” and still based on “meritocracy”? Honestly, even more so than before!
You don’t get it. The very idea of different comp for different skin colors is the problem. Getting your foot in the door because of race is the problem. Race should never be in the discussion to begin with.
The team that hired them should get a pick. Not the team that they came from. They most likely weren’t doing the same job there. Give the pick to the team that hired them to be the HC or GM!!!
Or that’s why they “beat the system” and lost the title…it doesn’t appear that getting extra picks is enough to overcome choosing your favorite skin color over the best coaches. Diversity hires will never be the same quality as someone who earns it on merit
@elly de la burrow They tried to “beat the system” this time by hiring Steve Wilks as their D-Coordinator, seeing as how he was a borderline HC candidate last year, hoping that he would get hired to an HC position this year. Previously to get those picks, they gave assistant positions to very well-deserving minority candidates and gave them the tools to succeed so that they would be hired by other teams. A rival team is more than before going to hire based on merit because the hire is giving their rival two third round picks!
Look at some of the people they got picks for, some of the better GMs and HCs in the league, who were hired on MERIT or else the hiring teams wouldn’t have wanted them because AGAIN it gave the 49ers more picks:
DeMeco Ryans, Mike McDaniel, and Brad Holmes (Lions GM)
Race should never be in the discussion to begin with. If there is different compensation because of skin color than that is the problem. Regardless of skin color benefiting, treating or rewarding people based on race is wrong.
@JM108 You are right, race shouldn’t be in the discussion to begin with, the problem is, it has been an issue. White people hiring more white people or white people they know. This rule is supposed to combat nepotism, but it hasn’t worked all that well. I am a huge Packers fan, but Matt LaFleur’s hiring has been very problematic. He keeps hiring his white friends to be assistant coaches, not based on merit. He hired Joe Barry, one of the worst d-coordinators in the league. Would you say he deserved that job based on merit? Was it his past history as d-coordinator for the 0-16 Detroit Lions, or the one year as d-coordinator for the 2015 Washington team that got him that job based on merit? How about the Packers new d-coordinator Jeff Hafley who is good friends with LaFleur? Would you say he was hired on merit? Was it the 22-26 record as HC at Boston College that got him the job? No?
How else are you going to give minority candidates a chance when that is always stacked up against them. The “merit” argument is bs and always has been.
And again, the teams doing the hiring are not being rewarded, the teams being rewarded are the ones giving the minority assistants a chance to actually EARN a top position in the league based on “merit” as you say.
“White people hiring more white people or white people they know. This rule is supposed to combat nepotism”
Oh right Nepotism. The Owners do not care about Nepotism. As most will pass their team down to their families and employ their friends. The Commissioners job is to combat Nepotism but as we know, he “must answer to the owners, who by executive committee vote have the power to remove him.”
Yes I do believe this is a problem as well but I really think nobody in a real position at the NFL cares about nepotism at all and all this other crap (Comp Picks) is pandering BS.
“He keeps hiring his white friends to be assistant coaches, not based on merit.”
If true about LaFleur, than of course that is wrong but to have extra picks or rewards to even the playing field with race being the deciding factor is wrong as well. I get it is their “solution” but this should not be it.
Minority coaches worth more in compensation than players. Yup this is totally normal.
Welcome to what reparations look like.
My grandfather came from the Balkans. The only slavery my ancestors experienced was being enslaved in Africa. Those same Africans that captured people into slavery and sold them in the Indies, America and throughout the world. Even after whites ended slavery once and for all, Africans started the practice up AGAIN. Africans and those with African heritage owe the world a great deal of reparations for their centuries of enslaving people, but to date they are still unable to do much but take charity from the world.
Are you seriously relating slavery and reparations to compensatory nfl draft picks?
Are you going to bury your head in the sand or stand up when there is a problem? Treating POC different just because they are POC is the issue. Getting an interview to be an assistant because your employer will be incentivized because of your race is a huge problem.
@JM108 I can understand your side of the argument if the employer is incentivized, but the the employer is not incentivized in this case. The team the coach/executive is being hired from is the one getting the comp picks. If anything, the hiring team would be less likely to hire a POC because it gives another team comp picks. Therefore, the person being hired is definitely based on merit.
Well said. I get your point. It’s one “solution”, although one I do not agree with.