The 2025 NFL regular season came to an end on Sunday, finishing the 18-week battle for a spot in the playoff picture. The end of the regular season also sets up one of the first major events of the 2026 NFL league year, with the first round of the NFL Draft coming into focus. While the playoffs will settle the final third of the draft order, the first-round order for the non-playoff teams is now set.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the Miami Dolphins are included among those non-playoff teams, allowing us to know where the team, barring any trades, will be picking when the April college prospect selection process begins.<\/p>\n
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Updated 2026 NFL Draft order<\/p>\n
1 \u2013 Las Vegas Raiders (3-14, .538 strength of schedule)
2 \u2013 New York Jets (3-14, .552)
3 \u2013 Arizona Cardinals (3-14, .571)
4 \u2013 Tennessee Titans (3-14, .574)
5 \u2013 New York Giants (4-13)
6 \u2013 Cleveland Browns (5-12, .486)
7 \u2013 Washington Commanders (5-12, .507)
8 \u2013 New Orleans Saints (6-11, .495)
9 \u2013 Kansas City Chiefs (6-11, .516)
10 \u2013 Cincinnati Bengals (6-11, .521)
11 \u2013 Miami Dolphins (7-10)
12 \u2013 Dallas Cowboys (7-9-1)
13 \u2013 Los Angeles Rams (via Atlanta Falcons (8-9, .496)
14 \u2013 Baltimore Ravens (8-9, .502)
15 \u2013 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-9, .529)
16 \u2013 New York Jets (via Indianapolis Colts (8-9, .538))
17 \u2013 Detroit Lions (9-8, .490)
18 \u2013 Minnesota Vikings (9-8, .514)<\/p>\n
Playoff Teams (order decided based on playoff results):<\/p>\n
Wildcard
19 \u2013 Dallas Cowboys (via Green Bay Packers (9-7-1))
20 \u2013 Los Angeles Chargers (11-6)
24 \u2013 San Francisco 49ers (12-5, .498)
21 \u2013 Buffalo Bills (12-5, .470)
22 \u2013 Houston Texans (12-5, .524)
23 \u2013 Los Angeles Rams (12-5, .528)<\/p>\n
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Divisional
25 \u2013 Carolina Panthers (8-9)
26 \u2013 Pittsburgh Steelers (10-7)
27 \u2013 Philadelphia Eagles (11-6)
28 \u2013 Cleveland Browns (via Jacksonville Jaguars (13-4))<\/p>\n
Conference
29 \u2013 Chicago Bears (11-6)
30 \u2013 New England Patriots (14-3)<\/p>\n
Super Bowl
31 \u2013 Denver Broncos (14-3, .422)
32 \u2013 Seattle Seahawks (14-3, .497)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 NFL regular season came to an end on Sunday, finishing the 18-week battle for a spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2049],"tags":[390,254,117,53,260,391,256,54,257,258,113,217,7,345,253,392,125,110,393,262,58,216,251,2087,259,249,55,56,255,6,15,80302,109,57,252,261,250,394,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-655046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-carolina-panthers","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","15":"tag-cleveland-browns","16":"tag-dallas-cowboys","17":"tag-denver-broncos","18":"tag-detroit-lions","19":"tag-dolphins","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-green-bay-packers","22":"tag-houston-texans","23":"tag-indianapolis-colts","24":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","25":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","26":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","27":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","28":"tag-los-angeles-rams","29":"tag-miami","30":"tag-miami-dolphins","31":"tag-miamidolphins","32":"tag-minnesota-vikings","33":"tag-new-england-patriots","34":"tag-new-orleans-saints","35":"tag-new-york-giants","36":"tag-new-york-jets","37":"tag-nfl","38":"tag-nfl-draft","39":"tag-nfl-draft-order","40":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","41":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","42":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","43":"tag-seattle-seahawks","44":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","45":"tag-tennessee-titans","46":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}