When the NFL Gives Away Draft Picks, You Better Take Them--Comp Pick Analysis
| March 23, 2019 06:03AM |
When the NFL Gives Away Draft Picks, You Better Take Them
When the NFL introduced the salary cap in 1994, they also introduced compensatory picks. There are 32 free picks distributed to qualifying NFL teams.
Why does this matter? Wouldn’t it be better to not lose free agents and let other teams get these mid to lower-level (outside the top-96) draft picks which are more of a crapshoot?
Two keys to building great rosters. Don’t overpay other team’s players in free agency and do try to accumulate more draft picks.
There are many ways to build a strong roster. With cap increases, some teams are allowing themselves to dabble more in free agency than they did in the past (such as the Packers in 2019) and this strategy isn’t inherently wrong. Some years, adding certain free agents will make sense. But history has shown us that devoting too much of your roster construction on building through free agency is inefficient. With comp picks now capable of being traded (new rule in 2017), some of the smartest teams are taking advantage of this rule.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2019 06:06AM by RamBill.
When the NFL introduced the salary cap in 1994, they also introduced compensatory picks. There are 32 free picks distributed to qualifying NFL teams.
Why does this matter? Wouldn’t it be better to not lose free agents and let other teams get these mid to lower-level (outside the top-96) draft picks which are more of a crapshoot?
Two keys to building great rosters. Don’t overpay other team’s players in free agency and do try to accumulate more draft picks.
There are many ways to build a strong roster. With cap increases, some teams are allowing themselves to dabble more in free agency than they did in the past (such as the Packers in 2019) and this strategy isn’t inherently wrong. Some years, adding certain free agents will make sense. But history has shown us that devoting too much of your roster construction on building through free agency is inefficient. With comp picks now capable of being traded (new rule in 2017), some of the smartest teams are taking advantage of this rule.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2019 06:06AM by RamBill.
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