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There are a lot of little qualifiers that guys have to pass in order to be eligible. And some of them may have changed in the new CBA, I'm not sure.
But under the old rules, if, for instance, a guy didn't sign with a team until after a certain point in the summer, he didn't count towards compensatory picks. If I remember right, Jackie Battle signed with the Chargers just before training camp. So he probably won't count.
Guys on a nothing one-year contract usually don't count either. I doubt the Steelers paid Pope anything over the minimum. That could also be true for B-Rich, but he's been starting all year. So that should help.
The Bucs cut Gilberry early in the season, so he shouldn't count.
Again, this is based on the old rules, but Carr, Orton, McClain and possibly B-Rich should count in our "lost" column. In our "gained" column, Quinn was a free agent from Denver, Hillis was a free agent from Cleveland, and Abe Elam was a free agent from Dallas. But Elam was added in the summer and, like Battle, probably won't count. All the other guys we signed were cut by their prior team, so they don't count either.
If we assume that B-Rich counts, we lost 4 and gained 2 for a net of 2. That would get us a nice pick for Carr, hopefully a 3rd, and then maybe like a 6th rounder for Orton.
If by some fluke Pope happens to count, we could get a 7th rounder thrown on too. If neither Pope or B-Rich count, then just the pick for Carr.
If B-Rich doesn't count and Elam wasn't signed late enough to be eliminated, the tally ends up 3-3, we get nothing, and Pioli should be force-fed his prolapsed colon.
And if some of the qualifiers that I've mentioned were changed in the new CBA, then this entire post is worthless.
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