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NFL Draft 2025: Complete List Of Compensatory Picks From Rounds 3-7
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The NFL has awarded 35 compensatory picks to 15 teams. Where do these picks fall in the draft? Find out the compensatory draft selections in the 2025 NFL Draft.
What Are Compensatory Picks?
.@NFL Announces 35 Compensatory Draft Choices to 15 Clubs: https://t.co/jRSoEuPimz
For the 2025 NFL Draft Round-By-Round Order, click here: https://t.co/e8Vgyw3h2G
— NFL345 (@NFL345) March 11, 2025
First of all, what are compensatory picks?
Compensatory picks are awarded to teams that lose more or better compensatory free agents than they acquired in the previous year.
The NFL Management Council created a formula to determine which compensatory free agents should result in a draft pick. The formula is based on salary, playing time, and postseason honors.
Not every free agent lost to another team will result in a compensatory draft selection.
No club may receive more than four compensatory picks per year.
Compensatory picks are situated from rounds three through seven in the NFL Draft.
This year, 32 compensatory picks were awarded via the formula’s results.
However, the San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Rams, and Detroit Lions were awarded special compensatory picks.
These special compensatory picks happened because a minority employee was hired as a head coach or primary football executive position by another team.
For example, Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn became the head coach of the New York Jets.
The 2025 NFL Draft is scheduled for April 24-26 in Green Bay.
NFL Draft 2025: Compensatory Picks
| Round | Round Choice/ Overall Selection | Team |
| 3 | 33-97 | Minnesota |
| 3 | 34-98 | Miami |
| 3 | 35-99 | New York Giants |
| 3 | 36-100* | San Francisco |
| 3 | 37-101* | Los Angeles Rams |
| 3 | 38-102* | Detroit |
| 4 | 33-135 | Miami |
| 4 | 34-136 | Baltimore |
| 4 | 35-137 | Seattle |
| 4 | 36-138 | San Francisco |
| 5 | 33-169 | Buffalo |
| 5 | 34-170 | Dallas |
| 5 | 35-171 | Dallas |
| 5 | 36-172 | Seattle |
| 5 | 37-173 | Buffalo |
| 5 | 38-174 | Dallas |
| 5 | 39-175 | Seattle |
| 5 | 40-176 | Baltimore |
| 6 | 33-209 | Los Angeles Chargers |
| 6 | 34-210 | Baltimore |
| 6 | 35-211 | Dallas |
| 6 | 36-212 | Baltimore |
| 6 | 37-213 | Las Vegas |
| 6 | 38-214 | Los Angeles Chargers |
| 6 | 39-215 | Las Vegas |
| 6 | 40-216 | Cleveland |
| 7 | 33-249 | San Francisco |
| 7 | 34-250 | Green Bay |
| 7 | 35-251 | Kansas City |
| 7 | 36-252 | San Francisco |
| 7 | 37-253 | Miami |
| 7 | 38-254 | Cleveland |
| 7 | 39-255 | Los Angeles Chargers |
| 7 | 40-256 | Miami |
| 7 | 41-257 | Kansas City |
| *Special Compensatory Selection | ||
