With the loss of Brock Osweiler, Malik Jackson, and a couple other former Broncos players, John Elway could pocket a few more draft picks for the 2017 NFL Draft.
Tim Lynch, who stated his sources from Over the Cap, came across a breakdown of all 32 team’s projected compensatory picks for 2017. According to those numbers, Osweiler and Jackson’s big time pay days resulted in the Broncos receiving the first and fourth highest projected picks.
#Broncos set to receive maximum number of compensatory picks in 2017 according to @Jason_OTC https://t.co/if5VGwKRt2
— MileHighReport (@MileHighReport) May 5, 2016
The way that the compensatory picks work is that they project the average amount the player is projected to make in a year and go from highest to lowest.