2026 NFL Draft Order

Through Week 17

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It's extremely annoying how there are somehow 6 teams ahead of us still.

If we get a high pick while sucking, fine, I guess, but to suck AND pick 7th would be terrible.

43 days later and it’s still the same. 🤯
 
I don't am not sure if everything goes our way this weekend that we can win the tiebreaker with Browns after the Falcons win last night.
 
The easy way to look at it you want them to win

Giants
Browns
Titans
Jets
Cards

The SOS drill with the Browns is looking tougher after the Atlanta win yesterday. But if you want to root for that simply root for the 49ers to beat Seattle on Saturday night that would still I believe give them a fighting chance. If Seattle wins this, I believe any SOS hopes are over vs the Browns.

As for watching Saturday night go 49ers

Sunday 1 pm: Browns, Giants, Titans

Sunday 4 pm: Jets, Cards and of course Eagles-Washington.

As for SOS, if the 49ers win, a Titans win would be big because it likely both leapfrogs Washington over the Titans in the draft standing and also the Browns, assuming that the Patriots also beat the Dolphins.
 
To just jump a couple slots puts us in a much prettier position. More high quality talent to choose from and better opportunity for trade good trade offers
 
I would place bets on any of those teams winning this week but I already blew my money on Powerball tickets, which had better odds.
 
I have faith in that ugly SOB Davis that he can keep his team on the losing side!

It's funny how much weight this awful game carries. It's like the NFL scheduler knew lol
 
Today we are all Giants fans!




talk about a moral dilemma for Jerry Jones.. Lose the game and hurt the Giants draft profile, but you also get to display your team to the world, losing to a bottom 5 team in the NFL on Hard Knocks on Tuesday night....
 
My uneducated mind... These numbers i'm going off of are according to Tankathon who has us picking 7th while NFL.com (see below) has us picking 6th, stating we have the same SOS as Cleveland so who knows what's real?

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(2) - New York Giants (3-13) - .529 SOS - vs Dallas - Dallas has nothing to play for other than Jerry Jones not wanting to see his team lose to the lowly Giants on Hard Knocks.... If the Giants beat the Cowboys, their SOS would go down 'double' because they play Dallas twice. Not exactly sure it would drop it enough to 'catch' our SOS, and our SOS would be unchanged because we play both of these teams twice.

(3) - New York Jets (3-13) - .549 SOS - @ Buffalo - Buffalo has locked up a Wild Card, but their seeding could range from 5 to 7 depending on how things shake out. If they beat Buffalo, their SOS would also go down 'double' as they are also a division opponent... less likely it drops them enough to 'catch' us either.

(4) - Tennessee Titans (3-13) - .573 SOS - @ Jacksonville - Jacksonville has locked up a playoff spot, but a win today locks the division. They can get as high as the 1 seed with help, so they have everything to play for.

(5) - Arizona Cardinals (3-13) - .576 SOS - @ LA Rams - Rams have locked up no worse than 6, but could lock up 5 with a win over Arizona.

(6) - Cleveland Browns (4-12) - .489 SOS - @ Cincinnati - Neither team has anything to really play for... and Cleveland is coming off the win against Pittsburgh so who knows what team will show up. Playing away from home against Cincy with Joe Burrow back... but maybe? If they beat Cincy, it also counts as 'double' because it's a division opponent so if Tankathon is right, the only way we get the 6 spot is if we lose AND Cleveland wins, giving us the worse record. IF NFL.com is right, then we're currently ahead of them in the 6 spot, so the only way we lose it to them is if they lose and we win.... since we're both playing division opponents, the outcome will have exact same effect on SOS.


edit: Did the math for us...

our opponents are 138-132-3... according to google, ties count at .5 wins so effectively it's 139.5-132, 139.5 divided by 273 (total games) comes out to .5109, or .511 (which is what Tankathon shows, not what NFL.com shows)

All that being said, i guess the short answer is to root FOR anyone ahead of us, as well as against anyone we've played this year to drive down our SOS, which ultimately comes down to rooting for the Saints and Patriots in terms of teams that are not ahead of us in the draft order.

Seattle beat SF, so that bumped our SOS (maybe that's where the difference is between Tankathon and NFL.com?).
Bears vs Lions - Doesnt matter since we played both, just dont want a Tie
Packers vs Vikings - Same as above
Chiefs vs Raiders - Same as above
Chargers vs Broncos - Same as above


Falcons vs Saints - Go New Orleans!!
Dolphins vs Patriots - Go New England!!

I posted this in the other thread, probably has more standing here but didnt want to just move it.
 
So with Seattle winning that means we can't jump Cleveland right? Who can we jump assuming we lose?
 
So with Seattle winning that means we can't jump Cleveland right? Who can we jump assuming we lose?


I'm gonna look at cleveland's schedule and see if there's any 3rd dimension that can get us there
 
I'm gonna look at cleveland's schedule and see if there's any 3rd dimension that can get us there

I am almost postiive there isn't because there is so much divisional play this week so most games involve to teams that Commanders played or two teams the Browns played so it just cancels out. Cleveland is amost definitely going to win the SOS tiebreaker.
 
ok so looking at their schedule....

we know for our sake, we're rooting for New Orleans and New England for SOS purposes, and NYG, NYJ, Tennessee, Arizona, and Cleveland for Record purposes.

New England, we're rooting for hard, because the Browns played the Patriots. Them winning boosts Cleveland SOS

We're also rooting for the Titans and Jets because they're above us in draft order. Cleveland played both of those teams, so them winning boosts Clevelands SOS

Cleveland also played San Fran, who lost to Seattle yesterday which is why the gap between us and Cleveland is what it is, we played Seattle so we got the boost and they got the drop.

The last teams to monitor are the Jets and Bills. We want Buffalo to lose because they are playing the Jets who are ahead of us (and Cleveland) in the draft order. Cleveland played both teams, so they would not get the benefit of change to the SOS as a Win/Loss would wash out. The only way this effects Cleveland is in the event of a Tie which is counted as 1/2 a win for both teams, or a full win for them since they played both.

Ironically enough, we have a lot of common opponents.... NFC North (GB, Det, Min, Chi), as well as Miami, and Las Vegas, so all of those outcomes have the same effect on us as it does them.

I guess when we're talking about Cleveland, our rooting interest doesn't change, it's just further reinforced with rooting for New England, and Tennessee. Tennessee winning may help Cleveland in draft position, but hurts them in SOS. Not exactly sure, to your point philibusters that there's enough there to make the difference, but at least we can hope...?
 
In regards to the tiebreaker with Cleveland, you can hope, but I actually do think its mathmatically impossible.
 
In regards to the tiebreaker with Cleveland, you can hope, but I actually do think its mathmatically impossible.



IF the 49ers beating the Seahawks created the gap then that philosophy can be applied beyond that game. They played 49ers who lost, we played Seahawks who won.

New England wins - benefits us as an uncommon opponent, Cleveland played NE, we did not - The Dolphins losing is a wash as they are a common opponent, so that essentially counts half
New Orleans wins - doesn't specifically matter as neither team played NO - The benefit here comes as Atlanta is an uncommon opponent.. they did not play Cleveland.

The Jets - If the Jets win, it actually benefits us double, by Record AND the fact that they played Cleveland... we did not.
The Titans - Again, benefits us double as they played Cleveland, we did not.

If We lose to Philly AND Cleveland loses to Cincy, the benefits are a wash because both division games count the same.

I think the math is actually there. We need 3/4 of the above to happen in order to pass them if my mental math is correct.

Of course if the Giants lose, that hurts us but doesnt hurt them. Arizona losing or winning has no effect if we're just talking about head to head SOS.
 
I am almost postiive there isn't because there is so much divisional play this week so most games involve to teams that Commanders played or two teams the Browns played so it just cancels out. Cleveland is amost definitely going to win the SOS tiebreaker.

So if they can't move up then I guess I should just go ahead and root for the Commanders today right?
 
They can move up as high as 2 if they lose and everyone else wins. Thats highly unlikely though.
 

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