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Fifteen NFL teams were awarded compensatory selections on Tuesday, however, the San Francisco 49ers were not one of them. According to NFL.com, the number of compensatory picks allotted each year is limited to the number of teams in the league (32). However, compensatory picks are not divvied up equally among the teams, and no team can receive more than four compensatory picks in a single year. To qualify for compensatory picks, teams must end up with more compensatory free agents lost than gained in a particular year.
To qualify as a compensatory free agent, players need to have been signed as unrestricted free agents before May 8, 2019, be on their team's roster for at least 10 weeks of the regular season and rank in the top 50 percent of the NFL's compensatory-pick formula. Players who were released by their previous team are not eligible for the formula.
San Francisco's additions outweighed their losses in 2019 with the signings of Kwon Alexander, Tevin Coleman, Jason Verrett among others. However, with the number of 49ers who are expected to become unrestricted free agents next week, San Francisco could find itself with additional picks in 2021.
As it stands, the 49ers own six picks in the 2020 NFL Draft that kicks off April 23 in Las Vegas. San Francisco traded away their second-round pick to the Kansas City Chiefs for pass rusher Dee Ford and gave away their third and fourth round selections to the Denver Broncos for Emmanuel Sanders, who is an impending free agent. It's worth noting these picks are subject to change due to trades between the 49ers and another club between now and the draft.
Here's where the 49ers currently stand heading into the draft: