Who is this year’s worst-to-first NFL team?
Which 2016 bottom feeder will win its division in 2017?
Every year it happens, and every year we are just as shocked. Some NFL team has the 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 drafts —then suddenly the next season they win their division out of nowhere.
Sound familiar? It should. In 13 of the past 14 NFL seasons, at least one team that finished last in the division one season flipped the script and won it the following year. Two years ago the Washington Redskins jumped from 4–12 to 9–7 to win the NFC East. Last year it was the NFC East again as rookie Dak Prescott improved the Dallas Cowboys from 4–12 to 13–3.
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 who will it be?
