Calculating every team's contending team's chance to secure a spot in the NFL Playoffs.
The start of the 2020 NFL Playoffs is only three weeks away, and several divisions are still up for grabs. The Packers and Chiefs have clinched their respective divisions already, and the Steelers and Saints could do the same this weekend – but there could still be some dramatic twists left in the races for the NFC East, NFC West and AFC South.
To determine which teams have the best chance of making the playoffs in 2020, we crunched the numbers from the most recent playoff models from three major outlets – ESPN’s FPI, Five Thirty Eight and Football Outsiders. Each team is ranked in order of their average projected chance to qualify for the playoffs. We’ve also include each divisional contender’s chance to win their respective division.
The following teams have either been eliminated from contention mathematically, or eliminated realistically, with a playoff chance of under 1 percent: The Lions (1%), Texans (0%), Panthers (0%), Broncos (0%), Falcons (0%), Chargers (0%), Bengals (0%), Jaguars (0%) and Jets (0%).
