The NFC East has been the worst division in the NFL this year and it hasn't been close. The division has been so bad that it actually made NFL history in Week 6. With the Commanders losing to the 49ers on Monday night, the NFC East became the first division in NFL history to have all four teams go winless in back-to-back weeks (0-6-2), and this somehow happened even though two NFC East teams played each other in Week 5.
Last week, we projected the Eagles would win the division, but that was before we learned that Jalen Hurts is expected to miss the rest of the season due to blood clots. With Hurts out, that has created a wild open race. At this point, you might be wondering who's actually going to win the NFC East, and fortunately, we might have the answer for you here.
To help us figure out who's going to win each division and who's going to make the playoffs, we had our analytics expert, Stephen Oh, simulate the rest of the 2026 season. We also have an analysis on why each NFC East team could take the division. There are 179 games left on the regular-season schedule, along with 13 playoff games, and Oh simulated all of them.
Not only did he project the 14 teams that will end up making the playoffs, but he also crowned a Super Bowl champion. And yup, he also projected who the winner of the NFC East will be, since someone has to win that division. With that in mind, let's get to the projections.
And just as a reminder, we're projecting what the NFL playoff field will look like at the end of the season. This is NOT the current playoff standings. For the first time all season, there are no changes to the AFC playoff field.
The seven teams projected to make the playoffs this week are the same seven that we had last week. The only difference is that the Patriots and Bengals have switched seeds, with New England now one spot ahead of Cincinnati after being behind them last week. Here's the projected AFC playoff field (with each team's current record): 1.
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