The NFL awarded compensatory draft picks Friday
Youth Drew Sample Jersey , and the Patriots and Rams both received two third-round picks.The Super Bowl teams will have extra picks to reload this offseason.The Patriots’ third-round choices are No. 97 overall and 101 overall. The Rams’ third-round choices are No. 98 and 99 overall.In all, 15 teams received additional selections after losing more or better compensatory free agents (CFA) than it acquired last year based on a formula.The Rams lost Derek Carrier, Cody Davis, Trumaine Johnson and Sammy Watkins, while signing no compensatory free agents. (The free agents the Rams signed were released by other teams and not compensatory free agents.)The Patriots lost Danny Amendola, Johnson Bademosi, Malcolm Butler, Cameron Fleming
White Drew Sample Jersey , Dion Lewis and Nate Solder as CFAs. They signed CFAs Adrian Clayborn and Jeremy Hill.Washington (96th overall), Carolina (100th) and Baltimore (102nd) each received one third-round pick.In the fourth round, Indianapolis (No. 135 overall), Dallas (136), Atlanta (137) and Philadelphia (138) get extra selections.The Giants (No. 171 overall), Atlanta (172) and Washington (173) received extra fifth-rounders.In the sixth round, the Patriots (No. 205), Washington (206)
Drew Sample Jersey Mens , Arizona (207), Philadelphia (208), Minnesota (209), Cincinnati (210, 211 and 213), San Francisco (212) and Kansas City (214) got additional picks.In the seventh round, the Vikings (No. 247, 250)
Billy Price Jersey , Cardinals (248, 249, 254), Rams (251), Patriots (252) and Washington (253) all received extra choices. During a press conference on Tuesday, Bengals head coach Zac Taylor discussed his philosophy of hiring assistant coaches and said he “would never do anything to tarnish the reputation” of the team by bringing anyone other than the right people into the organization.Those comments got a second look on Thursday when the Bengals announced that Jim Turner will be the team’s offensive line coach. Turner was fired by the Dolphins in February 2014 after the release of the report about allegations of bullying levied by former Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin.That report alleged Turner was aware of and participated in homophobic taunting of players and Turner was later suspended while at Texas A&M for including slides found to be offensive in a presentation during an event for female football fans. Turner remained at the school until taking the job under Taylor, who worked with Turner in Miami and helped bring him to the University of Cincinnati for a couple of weeks before A&M came calling.Taylor explained why hiring Turner does not go against his earlier comments. Taylor said “on the surface sometimes things look a certain way,” but that he knows Turner and his familiarity with the past situations leaves him “very comfortable” with bringing him onto the staff.“He’s a great person
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