How the NFL Teams bracket works
Rank NFL teams without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Dallas Cowboys or New England Patriots? Green Bay Packers or Kansas City Chiefs? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two contenders is far easier than sorting 32 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 contenders in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.
Dallas Cowboys
NFC East
New England Patriots
AFC East
Green Bay Packers
NFC North
Kansas City Chiefs
AFC West
San Francisco 49ers
NFC West
Pittsburgh Steelers
AFC North
Buffalo Bills
AFC East
Philadelphia Eagles
NFC East
Detroit Lions
NFC North
Baltimore Ravens
AFC North
Miami Dolphins
AFC East
Seattle Seahawks
NFC West
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
NFC South
Las Vegas Raiders
AFC West
Denver Broncos
AFC West
New York Giants
NFC East
Chicago Bears
NFC North
Minnesota Vikings
NFC North
New Orleans Saints
NFC South
Los Angeles Rams
NFC West
Cincinnati Bengals
AFC North
Jacksonville Jaguars
AFC South
Houston Texans
AFC South
Indianapolis Colts
AFC South
Washington Commanders
NFC East
Arizona Cardinals
NFC West
Carolina Panthers
NFC South
Atlanta Falcons
NFC South
Los Angeles Chargers
AFC West
New York Jets
AFC East
Tennessee Titans
AFC South
Cleveland Browns
AFC North
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 3 completed NFL Teams brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Green Bay Packers
11W - 1L · won 2 brackets
92%
win rate
- 2
Cleveland Browns
6W - 2L · won 1 bracket
75%
win rate
- 3
Dallas Cowboys
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 4
Seattle Seahawks
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 5
Denver Broncos
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 6
Los Angeles Rams
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 7
New England Patriots
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 8
Buffalo Bills
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 9
Baltimore Ravens
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 10
Miami Dolphins
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- 2The default run puts all 32 contenders in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the contender you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
NFL Teams bracket FAQ
How many contenders are in the NFL Teams bracket?
The pool holds 32 contenders. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which contenders are included?
Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions, Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins and Seattle Seahawks, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank NFL teams take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other contender grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two contenders that never met. If you would rather place the contenders into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these contenders?
Every completed bracket feeds the NFL Teams community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own nfl teams bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own contenders, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.