Lost in all the free agency talk is news of what compensatory picks will be awarded. Hope Dolphins can get at least a 5th, and a 4th if we are lucky.
Supplemental picks don't get awarded per se. Compensatory picks will be announced omorrow though, and the thinking is that we will get a 4th.
There's been talk that we could get as high as a fourth. Now of course, thats at the VERY end of the fourth round, but still a great chance to get a developmental player.
Still, thats one more round of ammo for us, it gives us a better chance to have a good haul of rookies.
One blog that employs a method they supposedly learned from another guy who was infamous for his accuracy in predicting compensatory picks says we're getting a 4th for Kendall Langford. The major tenets of consideration are the following: 1. Player must have had an expiring contract, can't be a cut. On the bright side, if you sign a guy that was cut, it doesn't count. 2. Player must make more than $1 million a year. 3. Players lost will be sorted by contract values. From top to bottom a player lost will be canceled out by a player gained that makes as much or more than the player lost. 4. Player must have made the Week 1 roster. 5. Once you've isolated a player that fits the above criteria and was not canceled out by a signing, the round of the pick received will be dictated by contract value, playing time and post season honors. The last part is what I think is obviously the trickiest. But the blog says Langford should draw a 4th rounder.
when they are announced, we should remember they are based on the 2012 offseason, not this current one.
when they are announced, we should remember they are based on the 2012 offseason, not this current one.
I know this, the Mike Wallace ($12 mil/yr) signing is going to cancel out the Jake Long loss ($9 mil/yr) next off season. So don't go thinking we're necessarily going to get a great pick because we lost Jake Long to a big contract. In fact, I doubt we get anything. Dannell Ellerbe cancels out the loss of Sean Smith ($6 mil/yr) because Ellerbe's contract is greater ($7 mil/yr). Wheeler cancels the loss of Anthony Fasano ($4.0 mil/yr). Keller cancels the loss of Reggie Bush ($4.0 mil/yr). We still don't know what Brandon Gibson's contract will be worth, but I imagine it'll cancel Tony McDaniel whenever he signs. We'll see if Nate Garner gets above $1 million a year, but as I assume we're not done with free agency ourselves...I do not expect a compensatory pick next year.