Until just very recently, the Baltimore Ravens as an organization have never known a general manager other than Ozzie Newsome, who arguably oversaw a Hall of Fame-worthy run of draft talent for an expansion franchise that can already boast two Super Bowl titles and three Hall of Famers.
While he might have had his occasional weakness, such as drafting the wide receiver position, his lasting legacy will be as one of the great roster builders of his era, and one of the tools that he used to build teams—literally, better than anybody else—was the compensatory pick formula.