Philadelphia Eagles receive good news prior to free agency, 3 reactions

1. Where will said picks be placed?

Philly’s getting a third-rounder and two fourth-rounders. With three additional selections, they now have ten in the draft. Here’s where they all fall. They hold the 21st-overall selection in the first round and the 53rd-overall selection in Round 2. Their two selections in Round 3 fall at 85 and 103.

They now have three selections in Round 4 (127, 145, and 146), two in Round 5 (166 and 168), and the 190th-overall selection, which falls in Round 6. That one comes from a trade that sent Duke Riley to the Atlanta Falcons for Johnathan Cyprien.

2. Here’s a quick explanation of the process of awarding compensatory picks.

As just about every football fan, whether die-hard or casual knows, each NFL Draft consists of seven rounds and 32 selections in each round, one for each franchise. It never seems to work out that way however as teams bargain players and picks throughout the draft process and the months and seasons that lead up to each selection meeting (and the months and weeks that follow).

The NFL’s operations website has this to say about the process of awarding compensatory picks. For a full explanation of the entire process, click here.

"Under the terms of the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement, the league also can assign as many as 32 additional “compensatory free agent” picks, which allow clubs that have lost free agents to another team to use the draft to try to fill the void. The awarded picks take place at the end of the third through seventh round."

To understand this from an Eagles perspective, look at it this way. All of those times that guys were brought in and then dismissed after being key cogs in a few successful seasons didn’t equate to being total losses when the left. The ‘Birds’ got something out of the deal.