Schefter: NFL Teams can now trade comp picks

Urgent said:

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.

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Except that it doesn't actually work that way. Lose a guy who signs a $50M contract, sign two guys to $2M contracts, and that third-rounder goes poof.

This is huge. I wonder how BB, Caserio & co approach this next draft and whether they try to get a 1st rounder back.

My guess is no, but perhaps a high 2nd. Unfortunately that player wouldn't have a 5th year option like a 1st rounder.

The cynic in me half expected the league to also announce that when a team fails to exercise a team option on a player making him a free agent ( something the Patriots have done extensively since Donte Stallworth)
they will no longer be eligible for compensatory picks....as a way of penalizing the Patriots.

Urgent said:

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

And more penalties.

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I wouldn't mind a few extra 6ths for too-slow, weak-armed QBs...

TBR said:

This is huge. I wonder how BB, Caserio & co approach this next draft and whether they try to get a 1st rounder back.

My guess is no, but perhaps a high 2nd. Unfortunately that player wouldn't have a 5th year option like a 1st rounder.

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Unless there are other announced changes, the highest that comp pick could be would be end of 3rd round for Revis. We'll be picking #32 in each round I hope. That would put our second at #64, our third at #96, plus #97 as a comp pick. Since contract value seems to play a huge part in determining comp picks, it's fair to consider Revis's ridiculous deal as the #1 comp pick given out.

Based on the Jimmy Johnson draft value charts #64 and #96 would be able to push us up maybe 13 to 14 spots. Chase Stuart posted a draft value chart using AV to determine draft value, and that same deal would put us late into the 1st round. Shows you how different the values can be.

So theoretically they could package the 2nd and 3rd to get into the late 1st, but I don't see that happening and I don't see the value unless a significant player falls (like Brown).

So what's to keep the Pats from cutting a deal with an NFC team where they sign a free agent previously with the other team, gain a comp pick, and then trade those free agents back to each other? If the two free agents were going to sign with their original teams anyway?