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Extra Late Pick for Bears

Compensatory pick in Round 7 for the Bears due to number of total picks.
Gene Chamberlain|
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The Bears have received a bit of a surprise compensatory pick in this draft.

The league announced 37 compensatory picks for this draft as the exact selection order is now set and the Bears were given one even though they didn't really expect it.

The San Francisco 49ers received a league-high seven compensatory picks, the Rams four and the first one awarded was No. 96 at the end of Round 3 to Arizona.

The Bears get pick No. 258 near the end of Round 7 and the Houston Texans get pick No. 259, the "Mr. Irrelevant" pick.  These are actually pick 259 and 260, but the Miami Dolphins forfeited their first-round pick.

The pick the Bears got was a supplemental pick. The league gives out extra picks if the number of compensatory picks is less than 32 and it was. As a result, extra picks were given out at the end of the draft.

Compensatory picks are given out based on a formula applied involving lost free agents the previous year. The league does not reveal the exact formula.

So the Bears with this pick and with the other compensatory picks applied have the following draft picks:

  • Round 1, No. 1
  • Round 2, No. 52 (from Baltimore)
  • Round 3, No. 64
  • Round 4, No. 103
  • Round 4, No. 133 (From Philadelphia)
  • Round 5, No. 136
  • Round 6, No. 149
  • Round 7, No. 218
  • Round 7, No. 259 (compensatory)

Compensatory Picks

Round 3

96: Arizona

97: Washington

98: Cleveland

99: San Francisco

100: Kansas City

101: San Francisco

102: San Francisco

Round 4

135: New England

Round 5

167: Los Angeles Rams

168: Arizona

169: Dallas

170: Green Bay

171: Los Angeles Rams

172: New York Giants

173: San Francisco

174: Las Vegas

175: Tampa Bay

176: Dallas

177: Los Angeles Rams

Round 6

210: New England

211: Minnesota

212: Dallas

213: Arizona

214: Las Vegas

215: Washington

216: San Francisco

217: Kansas City

Round 7

250: Kansas City

251: Los Angeles Rams

252: Tampa Bay

253: San Francisco

254: New York Giants

255: San Francisco

256: Green Bay

257: New Orleans

258: Chicago

259: Houston

*Pick numbers are adjusted down one to account for Miami's forfeited first-round pick.

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Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.

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