Yes! Dallas will get 4 Compensatory Picks!

[Dan Dreyfuss]

For all of you people out there who were wondering IF dallas will get any
compensatory picks this year, well rest assured WE DO. The draw back for
us or any other team is that you can't pick until after the fourth round.
That sucks. But you can read it for yourself..Enjoy.

Cowboys may gain four picks from 1994 free-agent losses
By Rick Gosselin
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- The Cowboys are set to receive four
compensatory draft picks for free agents lost in 1994, according to NFL
sources.
The NFL Management Council was expected to finalize and announce
the package of compensatory picks for the 1995 draft later this week
during the league's annual meetings. The Cowboys are expected to
receive two compensatory picks after the fourth round and two more
after the fifth. Four is the maximum
amount of picks any team can receive.
The Cowboys received three compensatory picks in 1994, and all
three made the team -- tackles Larry Allen in the second round and
George Hegamin in the third and safety Darren Studstill in the sixth.
But the NFL announced last fall that the highest round for a
compensatory pick would now be the third. In the 1994 draft, there were
two first-round compensatory picks and nine seconds.
``We felt the way we did it last year caused a dilution of the
draft,'' said Harold Henderson, the NFL's executive vice president
in charge of labor relations. ``We didn't want to go through that
again.''
That costs the Cowboys, who lost eight free agents in 1994 while
signing just two. A team can only receive compensation for a free agent
if it does not sign another free agent to replace him. So if a team
loses three free agents and signs two, it would be eligible for one
compensatory pick.
``It's not an accident that we ended up with four compensatory
picks,'' Jones said. ``We debated whether to go get another free
agent but said, no, that would cancel out a
compensatory pick. We were deliberate in getting those. What is
unfair is they changed some of the important aspects in the middle of
the game. They made this announcement last fall that (the best) picks
would be pushed back (to the third round) after we had lost our
players, not before.''
The Cowboys lost several key players off a Super Bowl-winning
team, including Pro Bowl linebacker Ken Norton and starting offensive
linemen John Gesek and Kevin Gogan. Jones said the Cowboys likely would
have signed another
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