NFL Draft Order 2027

Updated Tuesday 27 October 2026, after every Week 7 game. This is the order the 2027 NFL draft would run in if the season stopped now, for all 32 teams, with the tiebreaker that actually decides it shown alongside.

One thing worth saying before the table, because most draft-order pages do not. A range in the Pick column is real. A team shown as 22 to 23 is level with the team beside it on record and on strength of schedule alike, and the order between them is not settled. After seven weeks one such pair remains, and the other 30 clubs hold a slot outright.

Current 2027 NFL draft order

Pick	Team	Record	Opponents	Points diff
1	Los Angeles Chargers	0–7	32-22	−76
2	Tennessee Titans	1–7	26-34-1	−55
3	Miami Dolphins	1–6	33-19	−64
4	Philadelphia Eagles	2–6	26-32-2	−65
5	New York Jets	2–6	32-30	−18
6	Indianapolis Colts	2–6	31-27-1	−61
7	Houston Texans	2–5	26-25-1	−5
8	New Orleans Saints	2–5	32-20-1	−32
9	Washington Commanders	2–4–1	23-30-1	−23
10	Dallas Cowboys	3–5	25-34-2	+6
11	Arizona Cardinals	3–5	32-27-1	−63
12	Atlanta Falcons	3–5	35-26	−18
13	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	3–5	36-25	+27
14	Carolina Panthers	3–4	29-26	−15
15	Las Vegas Raiders	4–4	25-34	−9
16	Baltimore Ravens	4–4	27-34	−24
17	Los Angeles Rams	4–4	31-28-1	+26
18	Seattle Seahawks	4–4	33-26-1	+26
19	Cleveland Browns	5–3	30-32	−34
20	Green Bay Packers	5–3	31-30	+7
21	New England Patriots	5–3	34-27	+22
22	New York Giants	4–2–1	17-35-1	+2
23	Cincinnati Bengals	5–2	22-31	+48
24	Kansas City Chiefs	5–2	23-31	+36
25	Jacksonville Jaguars	5–2	27-27	+85
26	Detroit Lions	5–2	27-25	+23
27–28	Chicago Bears	6–2	30-32	+54
27–28	Pittsburgh Steelers	6–2	30-32	+36
29	Denver Broncos	6–2	32-27	+7
30	San Francisco 49ers	6–1	23-30-1	+58
31–32	Buffalo Bills	6–1	24-29	+52
31–32	Minnesota Vikings	6–1	24-29	+47

Where the order is still tied

Two groups now, against seventeen after three games, and the largest holds two teams. The board has separated faster than this page expected: twenty-eight of the 32 clubs hold a slot outright, where eight did then. Picks 27–28 · Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers (6-2, opponents 30-32) Picks 31–32 · Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings (6-1, opponents 24-29)

• Picks 22–23 · Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions (4-2, opponents 18-22)

It is as tight as a tie gets. Cincinnati and Detroit are both 4-2 against opponents with a combined 18-22 record, so neither of the two measures the league applies first can separate them. The order between them in the table is alphabetical and means nothing: points differential, plus 41 for the Bengals against plus 19 for the Lions, is not an NFL tiebreaker. Everywhere else a single result moves one club rather than a whole group.

How the NFL draft order is decided

Three rules, applied in order.

Reverse record, for the teams that miss out. The 18 clubs that do not reach the playoffs take picks 1 to 18, worst record first. That is the whole of the rule for most of the board, and it is why a bad September matters more to this page than to any other on the site.

Playoff teams fill 19 to 32 by how far they got. The 14 who qualify are slotted by elimination round, so the wild-card losers pick before the divisional losers, and so on. The Super Bowl loser picks 31st and the champion picks 32nd. No team that reaches the playoffs can pick earlier than 19th, however poor its record was.

Ties go to strength of schedule, and the weaker schedule picks first. This is the part that catches people out, because it runs opposite to how the playoff tiebreakers work. In the seeding race a strong schedule helps you; in the draft order it costs you. The seven clubs on 2-5 are the clearest example on the board right now: Philadelphia picks fifth and Tampa Bay 11th on the same record, purely because the Eagles’ opponents are a combined 20-25-1 and the Buccaneers’ 30-16. Anything still level after that goes to the divisional and conference tiebreakers, and then to a coin toss at the scouting combine.

The race for the first overall pick

The Chargers hold it as the only winless club in the league. They are 0-7 with a points differential of minus 76 and 99 points scored in seven games, the fewest in the league, and the teams they have played are a combined 32-22. That last number is what puts them first rather than second or third. Tennessee is second at 1-7 and Miami third at 1-6. The argument for reading the points column rather than the record sits a little lower. Dallas is 10th on a differential of only plus 6, the best of anyone picking in the top ten, against minus 23 for Washington one place above. A club can be this high on three wins and still have played closer football than the board suggests.

Houston is the opposite case, and the one the order reads least well. It picks seventh on 2-5, yet it has been outscored by only five points across seven games, the narrowest deficit of any club in the first ten picks. A 2-5 record built on close defeats is not the same thing as a 2-5 record built on routs, and nothing in the board can tell the difference.

The gap between where a team sits today and where the season is heading is still the thing to hold on to. Our NFL power rankings have the Chargers 22nd on a rating of 42, ahead of ten teams with better records, so the board and the model disagree about who is worst. The model’s bottom side is Tennessee, 32nd on a rating of 1, which picks second here.

What changes from here

Three things, in rough order of when they bite.

Separation, and it is not one-way. Twenty-eight teams hold a slot outright after eight weeks, against thirty after seven and eight after three, because a week of results can pull two clubs level as easily as split them. By around Week 10 the top five is usually stable enough to argue about.

The playoff cut, in late December. The moment the 14 qualifiers are known, the board splits into the 18 and the 14, and several teams with poor records but a playoff berth drop from the teens to the twenties overnight.

Trades, all the way through. The order here is the order each team has earned. Picks themselves change hands constantly, so by the Thursday night in late April when the first round is called, the club on the clock is often not the club that finished with that record. Nothing on this page accounts for a traded pick, and any page claiming to this early is guessing.

Following the draft from Canada

The draft runs over three days in late April, with the first round on the Thursday in prime time. Canadian coverage of the NFL runs through TSN and DAZN, and the draft has historically been one of the easier events to find here because it sits on national television rather than behind a regional package. Broadcast arrangements are confirmed for each draft closer to the date, so check your provider rather than taking last season’s listing.

Futures markets on the first overall pick and on individual teams’ draft position open at the Ontario and Alberta books through the back half of the season, and they move on the same results this table does. Our NFL futures page covers how season-long markets are priced and settled, and the NFL playoff picture is the same standings read from the other end, which is worth having open beside this one. If you want the week-to-week form behind both, that is the power rankings.

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