Also note that draft order will be fluid and may not account for every single tiebreaking procedure, especially earlier in the season. And since tracking draft trades with full accuracy is quite difficult, if any picks are wrongly assigned, let me know.

OTC's draft page is now updated to move on to 2026. Note that rookie pool numbers are estimates for the time being based on previous growth, and may change at any time. https://overthecap.com/draft

Something does not compute here.

The end of that game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqffXs6ztJM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqffXs6ztJM

Teams with multiple players on Adam Schefter's potential trade candidates list: • 6: TEN (1-4) • 5: CLE (1-4) • 5: NO (1-4) • 3: NYJ (0-5) • 3: MIA (1-4) • 3: NYG (2-4) • 3: NE (3-2) https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46556471/sources-expect-active-nfl-trade-market-ahead-deadline

Without Da'Shawn Hand, in order to keep that 4th round 2026 comp pick on the board, they cannot have both Ifeatu Melifonwu and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine qualify as compensatory free agents. Both are very much on the qualification bubble as of now.

Da'Shawn Hand going on IR makes it less likely that he will qualify as a compensatory free agent in favor of the Dolphins, giving them less leeway to keep clear a 4th round 2026 comp pick for Jevon Holland going to the Giants.

..and of course, I invert the teams in my quick tweet. 6th to the Jaguars, 7th to the Browns. https://x.com/AnshuyYadav/status/1976112549163847876

And I really want to thank @AdamSchefter for listing out precisely which draft picks are being moved in trades, it helps out much in keeping accurate track of each team's draft capital in real time.

The 6th rounder going to the Browns came from the Jets in the Jowon Briggs trade. The 7th rounder going to the Jaguars came from the Eagles in the Fred Johnson trade. https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1976108843533791644

Our "We're [fully committed to]/[have full support for] the football program." T-shirts have people asking a lot of questions already answered by our T-shirts.

With LAR/BAL going south due to the Ravens' injuries, would Fox consider a 3-2 Seahawks team that just lost a thrilling close game versus a 4-1 Jaguars team that just beat KC in similarly thrilling fashion? Nope! Just default to the same ol' America's Cowboys Game Of The Week™!

If Ryan Kelly misses a high enough number of snaps, his contract value would fall to the 6th round. If a 7th round 2026 compensatory pick is available (Trent Sherfield or Johnny Mundt), it would instead turn into a 5th rounder (Cam Robinson).

The Ravens should also now be slated to have five 5th round picks in 2026: •their own •LAC's (Odafe Oweh) •NYJ's (Tyler Baron tradeup) •compensatory (Brandon Stephens) •compensatory (Patrick Mekari)

The Rams' 7th came to the Ravens via the Tre'Davious White trade--a player the Ravens might receive a 2026 compensatory 7th for due to him going back to Buffalo.

And that's a perfect week sealed up for the Broncos: get a win (and a big one at that), and all three of their division rivals lose.

To be clear, even with the snaps and earned incentive, Eric Wilson is very much on the qualifying bubble, so this is not certain by any means. But I now see it as a possibility.

The Packers would also be eligible to get a 7th round 2026 compensatory pick for the departure of Eric Wilson to the rival Vikings, but it would almost certainly miss the 32 pick limit.

That does set up a possible scenario where if Eric Wilson qualifies as a compensatory free agent, and Trent Sherfield & Johnny Mundt do not, the formula could have no choice but to cancel out the Daniel Jones comp pick.

I just discovered another liability with the Vikings' 2026 compensatory picks: Eric Wilson is on his way to qualifying as a compensatory free agent due to emerging as a starter in Minneapolis. He also has a $150k incentive for playing at least 52% of the defensive snaps.

The Trent Sherfield Snap Count Watch looks to have him falling to 31.6% in Week 5--he got only 16 (22%), while Pat Bryant got 40 (54%). The Broncos likely need to drop his average snaps per game to below 15 in order to avoid him from qualifying as a compensatory free agent.

Cooper Rush qualifying as a compensatory free agent would be very consequential for the Cowboys, though. They seem determined to trade off 5th & 6th round picks in exchange for contributions from Javonte Williams & Solomon Thomas now. Rush would free up that 5th rounder.

It's not a huge deal for the Ravens if Cooper Rush qualifies as a compensatory free agent, as they'll have at least one open 7th rounder to tank his cancellation, and protect their higher 5th round 2026 comp picks (Brandon Stephens & Patrick Mekari).

In case anyone is wondering about how Cooper Rush could factor into the 2026 comp picks, I'm guessing he'd need to start 5 games to get the minimum snap count boost of 25% he needs to qualify as a compensatory free agent.

Three of these players within one game right now, three of these other players within one team right now.

Denver Broncos Victory Doodle! : )

If Joe Flacco does not play another snap on the season, there's a chance that the 2026 compensatory pick that the Colts are slated to receive due to him going back to Cleveland could fall from the 6th round into the 7th.

So the 41st name will be added to the infamous Browns jersey...

Had that happened, the Cardinals would have gotten a 6th round compensatory pick in 2018, and the Vikings a 7th rounder, instead of the other way around.

Adrian Peterson barely got enough total snaps (27%) on the season to get a boost for it. The minimum is 25%. If it was split between teams, his contract would have been valued as a 7th rounder instead of a 6th.

People have been asking me if full snap counts still apply to all teams involved in a trade for the compensatory pick, and I believe the answer to be yes. An example I found that supports that is when Adrian Peterson went from the Vikings to the Saints to the Cardinals.

There's a new team on the 2026 comp picks board: the Commanders. While losing Deatrich Wise to a season ending injury is bad, a silver lining is that he might not qualify as a compensatory free agent, which opens up a 6th rounder for Dante Fowler leaving for the rival Cowboys.

And with that run, the Broncos finally have a 100+ yard rusher in a game for the first time since the end of 2022. Well done, JK Dobbins!

I continue to be perplexed as to why black is always a color that's used in alternate uniforms for teams that don't have it as one of their usual colors, but other colors almost never get used. Must be deemed to look "cool", I guess.

After learning from OTC what incentives JK Dobbins has in his contract for 2025, I now think he's very likely to qualify as a compensatory free agent, and if Trent Sherfield also qualifies as well, the Broncos are likely to extend their longest active comp pick drought into 2026.

The Browns were not going to get 2026 comp picks anyway, so trading for a compensatory free agent doesn't hurt them. This could help the Vikings if Cam Robinson's snap counts go back up as a starter, which would ensure that his contract isn't valued lower than a 5th rounder.

And the answer, per the wire:

Correction: the Derrick Nnadi picks are for 2027.

I have the Jets with 3 6th rounders: •BUF's (Brandon Codrington) •BAL's (Tyler Baron tradeup) •KC's (Derrick Nnadi) And I have the Titans with 2 7th rounders: •their own •LAC's (Elijah Molden) We await to see which picks moved. https://x.com/DMRussini/status/1970574996058607656

A game in Week 3 between teams that were 5-12 and 7-10 last season don't deserve getting this sort of privileged network coverage, but when it's the 3rd largest DMA, and especially the Dallas Cowboys at 4th, deserve's got nothing to do with it.

Well, Cam Robinson getting benched last night takes a whole lot of steam out of the "Vikings could get another 4th round 2026 compensatory pick" hypothetical.

As I see Mike Evans push off, I'm reminded of one of my linguistic football quirks: offensive pass interference is an oxymoron. The offense wants to complete the pass! What he really interfered with was the coverage. Thus this penalty ought to be called coverage interference.

This is likely just early season acclimation in my mind and I'm guessing the statistics would tell a different story, but it feels like 2025 is off to quite a heightened injurious start....

I was very curious if Boise would cowtown for Kellen Moore at some point (has this ever happened for a coach before?), and it looks like it's happening. Very rare for Fox to not air the Seahawks locally otherwise, even with the 49ers in play here. https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2025&wk=2

And finally, the Cowboys are also deciding that playing Javonte Williams and Solomon Thomas for plenty of snaps outweighs 5th and 6th round 2026 compensatory picks for the departures of Demarcus Lawrence & Chauncey Golston.

The Saints, on the other hand, are deciding that playing Isaac Yiadom for all the snaps outweighs getting a 4th round 2026 compensatory pick for Paulson Adebo going to the Giants.

The 49ers get plenty of good news for their 2026 comp pick projection. Not only is Isaac Yiadom easily on track to qualify as a compensatory free agent in their favor, Talanoa Hufanga playing all the snaps in Denver might be enough to push his contract to the 4th round.

Speaking of the Jets, Morgan Moses is another player that has snap incentives that he's hitting as a starter in Foxboro. That upgrades his contract value and 2026 comp pick to the Jets from a 6th rounder to a 5th rounder.

As it stands right now, though, the Rams and Jets are in a fierce competition for the Mr. Irrelevant pick in 2026. Here's how close the compensatory formula has them right now.