{"id":901201,"date":"2026-10-31T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901201\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:44:24","slug":"why-the-seattle-seahawks-are-allowed-to-have-five-comp-picks-in-2027-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901201\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Seattle Seahawks are allowed to have five comp picks in 2027 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After the Quenton Nelson trade, one of our commenters brought up that the Seahawks should only get a maximum of four compensatory picks, which is something I want to address and clarify! It\u2019s a partially correct statement but with a caveat.<\/p>\n<p>Free agency comp picks max out at four<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Compensatory picks for free agents do have a limit. Next season, the Seahawks are slated to have comp picks for the following FA departures:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dareke Young\u2019s contract was too low to be classified as a compensatory free agent (CFA) and Seattle didn\u2019t sign a single CFA free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/compensatory-pick-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL rules limit the maximum number of compensatory picks<\/a> awarded through free agency to four. That the Seahawks were a -4 in compensatory free agents lost is purely coincidence. Even if the Seahawks didn\u2019t retain Rashid Shaheed and Josh Jobe and lost six CFAs while signing none, Seattle would\u2019ve instead been awarded the four highest valued comp picks by round.<\/p>\n<p>The Nolan Teasley comp pick is separate<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Seattle\u2019s fifth comp pick is a 2027 third-rounder for Nolan Teasley, who left the Seahawks assistant general manager role to become the Minnesota Vikings GM. Teasley is biracial\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48920534\/sources-vikings-hire-seahawks-nolan-teasley-new-gm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his father is black<\/a>\u2014and therefore he qualifies as a minority candidate hiring. Under the Rooney Rule, teams who lose a minority candidate to a head coach or general manager position\u2014or, more accurately, a primary football executive\u2014receive third-round compensatory picks over the next two drafts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the Seahawks, they will get third-rounders from the Teasley hire in the 2027 and 2028 drafts. Those picks are completely separate from the comp pick formula, so it is possible to have five compensatory picks in a single draft. In 2022, the San Francisco 49ers had five comp picks split into two minority candidate hires (the first of two third-rounders for Mike McDaniel, plus the second of two third-rounders for Robert Saleh) and three CFA formula picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Teasley\u2019s third-rounder is set in stone, whereas the free agent comp picks will be settled into specific rounds at the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Quenton Nelson trade, one of our commenters brought up that the Seahawks should only get a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,50641,99],"class_list":["post-901201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-depth-chart","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}