Packers awarded 1 comp pick in draft

Packers get only one comp pick in the draft this year the 39th pick in the 5th round pick 184 overall.

Packers losses figured in the formula were Casey Hayward and Scott Tolzien.

Just where everyone figured... Thanks for posting !

Somewhere Ted Thompson just pumped his fist.

I believe this is the first year that teams are actually allowed to trade their comp picks. Until now, it wasn't allowed.

There are only 32 picks issued each year, and from what I gather, we're about 2nd on the list in number of picks we've gotten since the system was put in place.

It's not a very good way of handling things to be honest. The team who signs a guy away should actually be forced to sacrifice a draft pick to the team losing the player - directly. That would make signing free agents a more carefully moderated way of filling roster needs. It's unfair to teams not involved in the FA move because they end up having the person losing a person sandwiched ahead of them in the draft order for the next round. They did nothing to deserve that happening.

Other sites also focus on the 11 3rd rounders, meaning there's a full 1/3 of a round taken out of the system before the 4th.

TW said:

I believe this is the first year that teams are actually allowed to trade their comp picks. Until now, it wasn't allowed.

There are only 32 picks issued each year, and from what I gather, we're about 2nd on the list in number of picks we've gotten since the system was put in place.

It's not a very good way of handling things to be honest. The team who signs a guy away should actually be forced to sacrifice a draft pick to the team losing the player - directly. That would make signing free agents a more carefully moderated way of filling roster needs. It's unfair to teams not involved in the FA move because they end up having the person losing a person sandwiched ahead of them in the draft order for the next round. They did nothing to deserve that happening.

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Baseball used to do this but they stopped because it was making teams not want to sign A ranked guys because they had to surrender their first round pick to the other team losing him. Also it was flawed because if a team signed 2 or 3 A ranked guys the picks would go how the guys were ranked the teams with the guys ranked 2nd and 3rd would get 2nd and 3rd round picks instead of 1st round picks like they were supposed too.

maybe it's just me, but i think that casey hayward would have been worth more to us than a extra pick at the tail end of the fifth round. and i'm guessing that the chargers probably felt he was worth more to them than a late fifth round pick as well.

if the same formula that is used to determine comp picks was used to take away picks from the teams that sign free agents you wouldn't have any teams losing first or second round picks for top notch free agents, so i don't think you would end up with the same problem they had in baseball.

Hayward works better in the SD system. Now is that GB screwing up and not using Hayward to his max potential? Or bad position coaching? Or GB drafting a guy it shouldn't have? Or just a player that works better in another system and thems the breaks? Hard to say.. But...

I actually don't think GB should get a comp pick at all for Hayward. They let him go and didn't put forth much effort to keep him. So why do they deserve an extra pick for letting a player go they didn't want? GB had the cap space to sign him. But they chose not to. That's on GB.

I have a big problem with suggestion of taking picks away from teams who sign FA's.. The whole system of FA is based on the fact that a player has control over his career after a certain number of years. There are already several ways to protect yourself in FA via tags and RFA's... If a team loses a guy well then that sucks. But you have to pick and choose who you sign or not. GB gives huge $$ to Arod, CMII, and such and you're gonna lose guys you can't pay. It's not the team who signs those FA's fault you tied up so much $$ in a few players. Or, in the case of GB you don't use your cap space to it's full potential.

I think it's odd that there is a compensatory pick system to begin with. If you don't want to or can't afford to sign your free agents and you also choose not to sign other Free Agents why should you be compensated with extra draft picks?