If you keep an Undrafted Free Agent (UFA) from the previous year, you must give up your 12th RD pick. Players that were drafted and then cut still maintain their draft status.
If you do not have a draft pick for the correct round to give up to keep a player, you must give up the next higher draft pick. This can happened if you trade away a draft pick during pre-season or have 2 keepers that have the same draft status from the previous year.
- Example 1: You decide to keep your draft pick in round 12 from the previous year and you also want to keep an Undrafted Free Agent (UFA). Both require that you give up your 12th round draft pick. Since you only have one 12th round selection, to keep both players, you must give up picks for rounds 11 and 12.
- Example 2: You want to keep a player you drafted in the 3rd RD last year. You also traded away your 3rd RD for the current year pick during pre-season. To keep last year's 3rd RD pick, you must give up your 2nd RD pick this year. Since you have no 3rd round selection, to keep this player, you must exercise your 2nd RD pick to keep him.