The NFL announced its compensatory picks for the 2018 NFL Draft. There are 32 picks in all, and the San Francisco 49ers received none.
The exact formula to determine how a team earns compensatory draft picks is not actually disclosed by the NFL, but folks have gotten pretty good at crunching through the data to construct most of the equation, most of which I don’t understand.
The basic gist, though, is that if a team loses more free agents than it gains the previous year, and if those free agents played significant snaps and earned a certain amount of money, the team could be entitled to a compensatory pick.