The Raiders had some notable losses in the 2025 off-season, headlined by standout safety Tre’Von Moehrig signing with the Carolina Panthers on a 3 year, 34 million contract. Additionally the team saw CB Nate Hobbs (4 years, 48M) depart for the Packers, ILB Robert Spillane (3 years, 33M), SAF Marcus Epps (1 year, 2.03M), and EDGE K’Lavon Chaisson (1 year, 5M) for the Patriots, and finally ILB Divine Deablo (2 years, 14M) head to the Falcons. It was a rather heavy offseason filled with turnover for the Las Vegas front office, but through that comes the implementation of compensatory picks.
For each draft, the NFL awards at least 32 additional picks for losses of certain players, teams can also earn additional compensatory picks for having a minority candidate hired as a head coach or general manager. The compensatory pick formula is rather complex and I will try to sum it up as best as possible. To calcuate a players compensatory value, contracts are ranked via a total Financial Number, every player in the NFL has a financial number (Bills QB Josh Allen is the highest at 2052). These values are made up of the following points:
After this each round is assigned a percentile base of the entire NFL, starting at the 3rd round, such as Round 3 (top 5%), Round 4 (5.1% – 10%), Round 5 (10.1% – 15%), Round 6 (15.1% – 25%), and Round 7 (25.1% – 35%). Through this each player is now assigned a value and from that a compensatory round pick value as well. While these values don’t fully represent each players value (i.e Josh Allen worth far more than just one third round pick) they are a way to redistribute draft compensation to teams as a way to also allow a salary cap (looking at you MLB).
With all that said and done, there’s one other stipulation. Contracts can cancel each other out, which is how you meet the value’s received. Teams can lose players with certain values, and gain others with that value which will in the NFL’s eyes “negate the loss of player A”. This can be seen when teams lose a high priced free agent and then sign another high priced one, the NFL believes you have recouped your loss. For the Raiders, they negated the loss of Robert Spillane (5th round value) with the addition of Jeremy Chinn (6th round value). In addition they negated the loss of...