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.