1) Draft status does not matter

2) The best a team can get is a 3rd round pick unless the player has been in the league 10 years then it is a 5th round pick. (That part is public)

3) After years of analysis it has been ascertained that new contract size is the largest factor. On field performance is the second largest factor.

So hope that Colledge and Jenkins start all 16 games and do well.
Hope that Brandon Jackson and Korey Hall put up some numbers.
Vote for them in Pro Bowl balloting.

After this season, while I wish them well, I will be a little less interested in their performance.

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I doubt the two 4th round picks would get combined... maybe Hall and jackson might get combined.

Also Kampman got a 4th round pick (CB House) ...



I believe the NFL tries to keep it hidden and secret. But some math wizard took on the challenge (for fun) to figure it out... he claims to have figured it out... and he reported what teams would get (if anything) before the NFL released it. I don't think he does it anymore or I haven't seen it... but he did say the biggest factor was $$$ per year of the new contract.



The rules of the compensatory pick say they can't be higher than the 3rd round and it's pretty hard to get one in the 3rd round... the Panthers did when they lost DE Peppers to the Bears.

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