Projected 2026 NFL draft order: Could another No. 1 pick join Cam Ward in Tennessee?

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  • ESPN staffSep 9, 2025, 10:00 AM ET

We are done Week 1 of the 2025 NFL regular season, and portion the 2026 draft is inactive months away, it's ne'er excessively aboriginal to instrumentality a look astatine the projected first-round draught bid for each 32 teams -- utilizing ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI).

Each week during the season, ESPN's FPI projects the draught bid by simulating the remainder of the play 10,000 times. Game probabilities are based chiefly connected the model's squad ratings and crippled locations. The draught bid is determined by the records the exemplary projects for each squad aft 17 games, arsenic good arsenic each team's mean draught presumption crossed the simulations.

Our FPI predictions gave the Titans the archetypal prime aft the archetypal week, but who other is adjacent down successful the apical 10? Check retired our afloat projections beneath up of Week 2.

See much connected the NFL draft

1. Tennessee Titans (0-1)

Average draught position: 6.6
FPI accidental to gain No. 1 pick: 16.2%
FPI accidental to gain top-five pick: 55.4%
FPI accidental to gain top-10 pick: 80.1%


2. New York Giants (0-1)

Average draught position: 7.4
FPI accidental to gain No. 1 pick: 12.4%
FPI accidental to gain top-five pick: 48.3%
FPI accidental to gain top-10 pick: 74.2%


3. Cleveland Browns (0-1)

Average draught position: 7.7
FPI accidental to gain No. 1 pick: 11.4%
FPI accidental to gain top-five pick: 46.7%
FPI accidental to gain top-10 pick: 72.7%


4. New Orleans Saints (0-1)

Average draught position: 8.2
FPI accidental to gain No. 1 pick: 11.9%
FPI accidental to gain top-five pick: 45.2%
FPI accidental to gain top-10 pick: 70.3%


5. Carolina Panthers (0-1)

Average draught position: 8.5
FPI accidental to gain No. 1 pick: 10.4%
FPI accidental to gain top-five pick: 43.3%
FPI accidental to gain top-10 pick: 69.4%


6. Miami Dolphins (0-1)

Average draught position: 9.1
FPI accidental to gain No. 1 pick: 7.8%
FPI accidental to gain top-five pick: 36.8%
FPI accidental to gain top-10 pick: 64.7%


7. New York Jets (0-1)

Average draught position: 10.5
FPI accidental to gain No. 1 pick: 5.3...

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