The race for the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL draft is taking shape after 10 weeks of the 2025 season. Five teams have at least a 5% chance at landing the top pick, according to ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI) projections. So we called on our NFL reporters and analysts to size up each of those bottom-tier franchises after midseason.
At this point, it's just conjecture, but as Hall of Fame executive Ron Wolf proved many years ago with the Green Bay Packers, it's never a bad thing to keep refueling the quarterback pipeline.