Schefter: NFL Teams can now trade comp picks

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter
For first time this spring, NFL expected to allow teams to begin trading compensatory draft picks, per NFL sources. Should be more trades.

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Good news for the Patriots who are projected to receive 4 comp picks. Never understood why they could not be traded

This is big for us. Is Goodell even aware of that?

Wow, that will make it interesting. Actually a 7th round comp pick will become highly valued if there is a certain potential UDFA that a team wants but doesn't think they can sign.

Somewhere out there, someone is complaining about how the NFL changes rules to help the Patriots.

Elijah said:

Somewhere out there, someone is complaining about how the NFL changes rules to help the Patriots.

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This is justice.

This is what fans want. More sixth round draft pick traded.

And more penalties.

Good marketing. Makes the draft more fun and interesting to follow and watch!
I can't wait to see what impact player BB takes with the 32nd pick in next spring's draft!
Oh, wait!
Never mind.

What is that fool Goodell doing? Doesn't he realize he should be trying to bring about the demise of the Great Patriots Dynasty, not augment it? When will this reign of tyranny be brought to a stop? First he pisses of Brady and now this. This is proof that Goodell is in the pockets of the Kraft Foods Group. #FireThatA$$h*le

BB just announced that he has traded his fifth and sixth comp picks to Buffalo, for their next two firsts..

Rex said he finds more "spirited players" in later rounds..

Someone petitioned to have the picks tradeable, and I doubt it was the Patriots that convinced them.

FreeTedWilliams said:

Wow, that will make it interesting. Actually a 7th round comp pick will become highly valued if there is a certain potential UDFA that a team wants but doesn't think they can sign.

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I suppose if a team is absolutely desperate, yes, a trade might happen.

But I just don't see a huge market (about the best you could hope for is something like two 7's in future years); after all, the situation you suggest above essentially requires that a team already have used up all its draft capital.

I wonder which team is going to be the team BB swindles his #32 in exchange for the next 7 years worth of Compensation picks that team gets.

patsinthesnow said:

Good news for the Patriots who are projected to receive 4 comp picks. Never understood why they could not be traded

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The logic behind making them mandatory was that they were designed to help level the playing field and give teams an extra chance to replace lost talent. There is some merit to the idea, even if you disagree with it.

The whole comp pick system sounds dumb to me, they should just do away with it.

Can't wait for a semi-decent team with an idiot staff to lose a ton of talent in an offseason and instead of using their comp picks to help re-stock, trades them all for an IMPACT PLAYER!

voluntarysaftey said:

The whole comp pick system sounds dumb to me, they should just do away with it.

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The Pats had some luck with the 6th round comp pick they got in 2000.

Basically it makes the draft an 8 round affair, every year the NYJFL hands out 32 comp picks.

FreeTedWilliams said:

The Pats had some luck with the 6th round comp pick they got in 2000.

Basically it makes the draft an 8 round affair, every year the NYJFL hands out 32 comp picks.

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That is all true, and @ctpatsfan77 lays out the logic for it, but I still agree with @voluntarysaftey. It came about as the NFL's reaction to real free agency and was modeled after MLB's contemporary system (adjusting for its biggest flaws). Goes back to the old reserve clause days and the idea that, "I lost a player, I need someone to replace him."

My issue is that this system doesn't make sense in a world where a salary cap and a salary floor exist. Someone else is going to be cut due to cap money who oftentimes is a better player than the UFA, yet that isn't taken into account. The Patriots and Ravens have been experts at executing this strategy for the last 15 years. Shoot, we got a draft pick this year for losing Blount in free agency.... Who later played with us half the season anyway! That system doesn't make sense to me. I would just do away with it and have a real 8 round draft.

I think this is a win/win/win situation. Teams to be more flexible in the draft packages they can offer and receive for trades will result in an increased number of trades. This creates buzz for the NFL and fans, gives teams more flexibility to target the players they truly covet and gives the NFLPA more players that are drafted.

ctpatsfan77 said:

The logic behind making them mandatory was that they were designed to help level the playing field and give teams an extra chance to replace lost talent. There is some merit to the idea, even if you disagree with it.

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So you have to believe that the team is incapable of gaining value from an asset they can trade. I like the current system. Lose a player to a $50mm contract, get a third round pick. Fine. I just think you can gain more value from a tradeable asset. Options always add value.

Ah, you young whippersnappers bemoaning the limited value of late picks. LOL

Drafts used to be a lot longer back in the day... the 1976 draft I which enjoyed through my first subscription to Pro Football Weekly, where the Pats picked Haynes, Fox, and Brock in the first, had 17 rounds.

Heck, Roger Staubach was picked in the 10th round in 1964. That gives the Brady pick in the 6th a run for its money!

...not to sound all Grampa Simpson... ...oops... too late. "MATLOCK!!!"

Should help the Patriots as they go to lengths to try to get extra comp picks and is something they do better than any other team.