Every offseason it seems that many fans of teams who lose big name, expensive free agents console themselves that the loss will yield the team a comp pick in the next season’s draft. Fans of the Seattle Seahawks are no different, and at no point in recent history was this a bigger topic than in the spring of 2018, when the Hawks cancelled out potential mid-round comp picks for the losses of Paul Richardson and Jimmy Graham with the signings of players like Jaron Brown and Ed Dickson.
Whether a fan believes that letting free agents leave is worth it in order to gain comp picks or not, the expert on the subject, Nick Korte of OverTheCap.