MARCH 14: In an unusual step, the NFL has awarded the Saints a seventh-round compensatory pick and stripped one from the Dolphins. The Saints’ pick appears to check in in front of the Browns and Chargers’ Nos. 254 and 255 slots, as NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero notes Cleveland and Los Angeles’ last 2025 picks will slide down one spot. The Dolphins will retain their other seventh-round comp pick, however.
MARCH 11: The NFL has awarded compensatory draft picks for teams in the 2025 draft. Based on an add/subtract formula that covers the 2024 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 35 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.
Sorted by round and by team, here are the league’s 2025 compensatory selections:
By round:
Round 3: Vikings (No. 97 overall), Dolphins (98), Giants (99), 49ers (100)*, Rams (101)*, Lions (102)*
Round 4: Dolphins (135), Ravens (136), Seahawks (137), 49ers (138)
Round 5: Bills (169), Cowboys (170), Cowboys (171), Seahawks (172), Bills (173), Cowboys (174), Seahawks (175), Ravens (176)
Round 6: Chargers (209), Ravens (210), Cowboys (211), Ravens (212), Raiders (213), Chargers (214), Raiders (215), Browns (216)
Round 7: 49ers (249), Packers (250), Chiefs (251), 49ers (252), Dolphins (253), Browns (254), Chargers (255), Dolphins (256), Chiefs (257)
By team:
- Baltimore Ravens: 4
- Dallas Cowboys: 4
- Miami Dolphins: 4
- San Francisco 49ers: 4
- Los Angeles Chargers: 3
- Seattle Seahawks: 3
- Buffalo Bills: 2
- Cleveland Browns: 2
- Kansas City Chiefs: 2
- Las Vegas Raiders: 2
- Detroit Lions: 1
- Green Bay Packers: 1
- Los Angeles Rams: 1
- Minnesota Vikings: 1
- New York Giants: 1
* = special compensatory selection
Damn, my eagles got none! I figured at least a 5th/6th
Your team has 20 picks the next 2 years including 11 in the first 4 rounds. You don’t need any!
Ravens always manage plenty of compensation picks. It’s actually wild.
It’s rather sketchy that teams get a comp pick for losing a Free Agent that was only on their team for one season. The 49ers get a 4th round pick for losing Sam Darnold and the Browns get a 6th round pick for losing Joe Flacco.
I’d like to see limiting the comp picks to free agents that spent 2 or more seasons with the team that lost them.
Same rules for everyone
Yes, I understand that thank you and congratulations.
I’m stating it is stupid to reward teams for one and done seasons with a Free Agent.
It’s part of the smoke and mirrors of free agency and salary cap, Rich. But yes, I agree the whole system should be taken back to basics. The salary cap rules are completely bizarre at this point.
The Vikings are going to get a comp pick for Daniel Jones and he was on the team for maybe a month. There should be some sort of cutoff there. The QO in baseball doesn’t allow draft pick compensation unless the player has been on the team for at least a whole year. This would seem to give benefit to better teams and a player released mid-season would most likely sign with a better team.
The list is good fun. I could guess a fair number of the top picks (for whom they were compensation). Further down gets tough.
Any chance we could get an analysis (player beside each pick, along with original team and new team and new contract value)?
It should be like baseball..