The NFL has a complicated way of deciding who gets compensatory picks, and sometimes even the league itself makes errors in figuring it out. The Bills believed they were affected by this when they didn’t get a third-round compensatory pick for losing Tremaine Edmunds in free agency.
Brandon Beane, the Bills’ General Manager, isn’t pleased with only getting a fourth-round pick for Edmunds. He thinks both Buffalo and San Francisco got a bad deal from the league’s compensatory pick process.
“It was surprising. I think both us and San Francisco got a bad deal,” Beane said. “We had separate meetings with the league to try to understand how it was calculated because, according to their records, we should have gotten a third-round pick.”
Beane mentioned that NFL contracts are getting more complicated with void years, and the league’s compensatory pick system hasn’t kept up.
“With all the changes, voids, and such, the numbers don’t always make sense,” Beane said. Beane explained that the Bills did everything they could to convince the NFL that they deserved a third-round compensatory pick.
“It was disappointing because we had planned for it, and I know San Francisco felt the same way,” Beane said. “We tried our best, but they said no.”
