It that’s time of year, just after the Super Bowl and before preparations for the next season begin. Free agency hasn’t started yet, the combine is still weeks off, and the draft is still months away. It’s a time when there’s an opportunity to do a deep dive on esoteric topics around the draft, and this is one such piece.
My fascination with the compensatory pick process is no secret, and I’ve written here in the past on strategies for optimizing comp picks as well as examining which teams have best utilized the comp pick process since its inception.