Five teams have work to do if they hope to make the NFL playoffs in 2026 after losing their first three games of the regular season.

Everything seems stacked against the Chargers making the NFL Playoffs this winter after they lost their first three games of the season.

Sitting at 0-3, the Chargers have a steep uphill climb ahead of them, and NFL history doesn't paint a promising picture for their chances of being one of the seven AFC teams to make the playoffs. "Since 1990,

If the season ended today, the Broncos would make the NFL playoffs as the AFC's seventh seed thanks to tiebreakers over the Cincinnati Bengals (2-1) and Cleveland Browns (2-1). There's a lot of football left to be played, though, so this playoff picture will undoubtedly change in the coming weeks.

Just 12% of NFL teams that started 0-2 from 2002-25 reached the playoffs. But six teams overcame that start in the past two seasons.

The Houston Texans lost the Indianapolis Colts, 19-17, to start the 2026 season 0-3, just like C.J. Stroud and DeMeco Ryans' team did in 2025.

It was an eventful Week 2 in the NFL with several teams jumping out to a surprise 2-0 and others failing to win their first games. With that, Kalshi’s NFL playo

Even though it's early in the 2026 NFL Season, the top of the AFC Playoff Picture features two teams we're very used to seeing.

Since the NFL playoff field expanded in 2020, just 16 percent of teams that started 0-2 have made the playoffs, a worrying trend for these eight clubs.