Last year, the Cleveland Browns made a killing off of compensatory draft picks, as they were awarded four of them. That won’t be the case this year; although no official announcement has been made, we know that the Browns will not have any compensatory draft picks in 2018.
Let’s go over why the Browns aren’t being awarded any compensatory picks. The basic formula to start with (before looking at contracts) is to look at which free agents were lost and gained during the previous offseason. These have to be players who became unrestricted free agents, not players who were cut.