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New York Giants awarded fifth-round compensatory pick

The New York Giants will get one additional compensatory pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, a fifth-rounder. The selection will be the 171st overall in the draft.

The NFL uses a complicated formula that balances free agents lost with free agents signed to determine compensatory picks. Projections has the Giants perhaps getting two compensatory picks, but in the end they will get just one.

Here are the players signed and lost in free agency that were factored into the Giants receiving the fifth-round compensatory pick:

Lost:

Ross Cockrell, D.