Rams Get Compensatory Pick

- The NFL announced today that 15 teams will receive compensatory selections in this year’s NFL Draft.

- The compensatory picks are determined based on a formula the league uses to determine a team’s net gain or loss in the previous year’s free agency. For example, a team losing a number of talented players without signing guys of equal value in free agency to replace them will be rewarded with extra picks.

- The Rams received an addition seventh-round selection, No. 252 overall from the league. League rules require that the number of compensatory picks awarded must equal 32, the number of teams in the league. The Rams actually did not garner a pick based on the formula but on the league’s rule that 32 picks must be awarded. Indianapolis also got a pick for this reason as the Rams and Colts were the two teams on top of the draft order.

- The Rams now have eight (8) total picks in this year’s draft including No. 6 overall, two picks in the second round, a third round pick, a fourth round pick, a sixth-round pick and two seventh rounders. The Rams traded their fifth-round pick to Denver for WR Brandon Lloyd and acquired an additional second round pick from Washington in the trade for the No. 2 overall pick.

- The Raiders got the biggest reward, an additional third round pick (and more) after they lost CB Nnamdi Asomugha, OL Robert Gallery, LB Thomas Howard and TE Zach Miller, among others.