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Bills awarded pair of 2016 compensatory picks

The Bills haven’t been frequent recipients of compensatory draft picks over the last dozen years, but on Friday Buffalo was awarded a pair of extra draft choices based on their free agent losses of a year ago.

The NFL gave the Bills fourth and sixth-round compensatory picks based on the free agent players who signed elsewhere in 2015. Those two extra picks are the 139th and 218th overall selections in the 2016 draft.

The compensation comes for former Bills safety Da’Norris Searcy, who signed a big free agent contract with Tennessee last offseason while C.