As has been previously written, among the many things that are being altered under the proposed new Collective Bargaining Agreement is the manner in which players are compensated for their fifth-year option seasons. This only applies to first-round picks, of course, since only their rookie contracts come with the option for a fifth season, but in essence, the new CBA if passed would make draft position irrelevant.
Thanks to Pro Football Talk, we now have a breakdown of what the different tiers would be for compensation and how those tiers are triggers, and we also know that the new structure, should the CBA be approved, would be eligible not for the 2017 draft class, whose fifth-year options are due to be exercised in a matter of months, but beginning with the 2018 class, so the first players for the Pittsburgh Steelers it would affect are Terrell Edmunds and Minkah Fitzpatrick, both of whom were drafted in the first round that year.