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How the Packers can cash in on some compensatory draft picks in 2021

In 2019 and 2020, the Green Bay Packers were shut out of the compensatory draft pick process. Brian Gutekunst’s first two offseasons as general manager in the preceding years brought a number of big-name and big-contract free agent signings to 2165 Lombardi Avenue, with Jimmy Graham arriving in 2018 and the Smith Bros. et al last spring.

As a result, the Packers have had to stick with their own draft picks in the past two selection meetings. This came after a 2018 draft that gave Gutekunst four bonus selections — one fourth-rounder, two fifths, and a sixth — as the result of the team losing free agents T.