How many compensatory picks should the Eagles expect to receive in the 2027 NFL Draft?

The acquisitions of Woolen, Brown, and Ebiketie will cancel out the picks the Eagles otherwise would have been awarded for the losses of Dean, Blankenship, and Dotson.

Is there a chance Ebiketie won’t count toward the formula?

Last year, Azeez Ojulari signed a one-year deal that was reportedly worth $4 million. He actually only made $3.46 million. Incentives in his contract were likely not qualified as “Likely To Be Earned.” And because he only made $3.46 million, he fell below the threshold to qualify for a comp pick. As such, he did not cancel out the pick the Eagles would receive for the loss of Isaiah Rodgers in free agency.

Ebiketie’s contract seemed similar to Ojulari’s. And certainly, the Eagles’ front office knows how to play the comp pick game. They are cognizant of it when negotiating contracts. And as we saw, they had a plan this offseason to add a legitimate veteran edge defender to join Nolan Smith and Jalyx Hunt whether that was to simply re-sign Phillips or add another edge defender from outside the organization. They were in on Trey Hendrickson, and they eventually traded for Jonathan Greenard. They very likely knew full well that when they signed Ebiketie that he would be no higher than the fourth edge defender in the pecking order. Would they be willing to miss out on a comp pick to sign a fourth edge defender?

The Eagles rarely comment on player contracts or negotiations, and unsurprisingly, they did not respond to an inquiry on Ebiketie’s contract and whether it was likely to qualify toward the comp pick formula, or not.

I did reach out to OverTheCap’s Nick Korte, who said that he had looked at Ebiketie’s contract in detail and could not find anything unusual. He is confident that Ebiketie will count toward the formula.

So, we’ll project that the Eagles will only receive the one comp pick, in the third round for the loss of Phillips.

We updated the Eagles’ 2027 picks here.