NFL announces 2015 compensatory draft picks
The NFL has announced the 2015 compensatory draft picks, with 14 teams earning additional selections this year.
The Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks each received the most, adding four picks apiece. Denver gets a fourth, sixth, and two seventh-round picks. Kansas City adds a third, two fifths and a sixth, while Seattle picks up a fourth, fifth and two sixths.
The Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans each scored three bonus selections. The Ravens claimed a fourth and two fifths, the Texans were given a fifth and two sixths.
Five teams came away with two extra picks: the Carolina Panthers added a fifth and sixth, the Cincinnati Bengals added a third and a fourth, the Green Bay Packers two sixths, the New England Patriots a third and a seventh and the San Francisco 49ers a fourth and a seventh.
The St. Louis Rams picked up a sixth-round pick, while the Arizona Cardinals, Pittsburgh Steelers and Indianapolis Colts round things out with a seventh-round selection each.
The league gives out compensatory picks to teams that have lost more or better compensatory free agents than they've added from the previous year, so these picks were based on 2014 free agency.
A formula based on salary, playing time and postseason honors is used to determine what free agents will result in a compensatory pick.
There are only 32 total compensatory picks handed out and no team can receive more than four, with none being higher than a third-round selection.
Compensatory picks cannot be traded.