More Picks to Play With

Eagles pick up three "compensatory" draft choices, per PFT:

The Bears, Colts, Eagles and Redskins got three compensatory picks apiece...  Fourth-round compensatory picks went to the Eagles, Bills, Ravens, Titans and Packers. Only one team, the Chargers, got a fifth-round compensatory pick.

Sixth-round compensatory picks were awarded, in order, to the Giants, Eagles, Colts, Colts, Eagles, Dolphins, Colts, Ravens and Bengals. The rest of the compensatory picks are seventh-rounders.

Frankly, I think the whole compensatory pick system is a pretty dumb vestige of the days when everyone in the league was scared of free agency.  But hey, three more picks is three more picks.  Might be just the added value needed to swing a draft day, move around trade.

(Thanks to Dan L. for the heads up.)

Comments

[flee]

i don't think compensatory picks can be traded. but having them does allow the eagles the flexibility to trade other picks. and i agree that the league should do away with these picks. i mean do the eagles and colts really need extra picks? as an eagles' fan, i am grateful for them but on the whole they seem unfair.

[Me]

Excellent point, flee.