Who is this year’s worst-to-first NFL team?
Which 2017 bottom feeder will win its division in 2018?
Every year it happens, and each time we are shocked. Some NFL team has a season from hell, loses most of its games, and grabs a top-10 draft pick. They are all but forgotten that summer and their players are avoided like the plague in fantasy football. And then they win their division out of nowhere.
Sound familiar? It should.
In 14 of the last 15 seasons, at least one NFL bottom feeder flipped the script and won the division the next year. Two years ago, I picked rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott and they helped the Dallas Cowboys improve from 4–12 to 13–3. Last year, I predicted a worst-to-first season for the Eagles, and Philadelphia rode Carson Wentz all the way to the Lombardi. The Jaguars turned the tables too, leaping from 3–13 to 10–6.
The NFL wants parity, and worst-to-first is the ultimate sign of parity. No matter how bad these bottom feeders were last year, history tells us at least one will likely win the division this season. So which one will it be?
