Making playoff predictions this early in the offseason, before the draft and schedule release, is just asking for ridicule. But thinking ahead about my playoff picks in April was a good exercise to remind myself to look deeper at rosters, especially because I somehow ended up with the same seven NFC teams to make the postseason in 2025.
That likely won’t be the case, and there is no way I’ll allow myself to pick the same playoff teams when it’s time to make my projections after the schedules are released in May. (Minnesota Vikings fans enjoyed my post-schedule-release prediction last year.)
