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2020 NFL Season Predictions: Who Makes The Playoffs?

  • The Draft Network
  • August 27, 2020
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Welcome to the 2020 NFL season!

The TDN Scouting Department has been hard at work this summer to paint as vivid of a picture as possible for what lies ahead. Our scouting staff poured through the film, crunched the numbers, and assessed the schedules. This season preview offers our glimpse into your favorite team and helps explore why they’re headed where we think they are for the 2020 season and the 2021 NFL Draft. 

Not only that, our forecast places each NFL team into a specified phase of the NFL lifecycle. Team life cycles help add greater context to why they make the decisions that they do. For example, two separate 7-9 seasons may have completely different energy. Were you expected to compete for a championship? Or were you starting from square one and rebuilding with a new coach and an overhauled roster?

Below you'll find our TDN Scouting Department's predicted 2020 divisional standings. But in order to see why we feel the way we do, find out our postseason predictions, learn some of the 2021 NFL Draft fits for each team, and read our in-depth analysis of each of the NFL's 32 franchises, click here to read our full 2020 NFL season preview guides for each team or click on your favorite team below!

AFC East

  1. Buffalo Bills*
  2. New England Patriots
  3. Miami Dolphins
  4. New York Jets

AFC North

  1. Baltimore Ravens*
  2. Pittsburgh Steelers*
  3. Cleveland Browns
  4. Cincinnati Bengals

AFC South

  1. Houston Texans*
  2. Tennessee Titans*
  3. Indianapolis Colts
  4. Jacksonville Jaguars

AFC West

  1. Kansas City Chiefs*
  2. Denver Broncos*
  3. Los Angeles Chargers
  4. Las Vegas Raiders

* (denotes postseason berth)

NFC East

  1. Dallas Cowboys*
  2. Philadelphia Eagles*
  3. Washington Football Team
  4. New York Giants

NFC North

  1. Green Bay Packers*
  2. Minnesota Vikings
  3. Chicago Bears
  4. Detroit Lions

NFC South

  1. New Orleans Saints*
  2. Tampa Bay Buccaneers*
  3. Atlanta Falcons
  4. Carolina Panthers

NFC West

  1. San Francisco 49ers*
  2. Seattle Seahawks*
  3. Arizona Cardinals
  4. Los Angeles Rams

* (denotes postseason berth)

Please note: The 2020 NFL Season Preview Team Guides are a part of the TDN Premium service. If you'd like to run your own simulations with trades via our Mock Draft Machine, read the full breakdown of your favorite team ahead of the 2020 season, join our private Slack channel, and #BeTheExpert of the NFL Draft, sign up for TDN Premium to access all of these features for our TDN Experts and more.

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