Nick Wright· Mar 20, 2026
Going through AFC win totals, Nick Wright leans over on Buffalo, Denver, Kansas City and Jacksonville, calls Miami a two-win disaster, pegs New England as a nine-win team and Tennessee at six or seven, and picks Bills, Ravens, Jaguars and Chiefs to win the four AFC divisions.
“They're still the best team in that division. That's an over for me.”
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11 checkable claims — 7 season win totals and 4 division winners — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing bet.
It names 8 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
None of them have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
Of the 6 unsettled calls enough other pundits have weighed in on, this one lands above the room on 2 and below it on 4.
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Miami Dolphins · 2026 season · wins14 calls from 9 pundits between 0 wins and 7 wins. Nick Wright said 2 wins. the room's median is 2 wins. not settled yet
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11 checkable claims in this take
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- Season Win TotalsTennessee TitansMar 20, 2026
Tennessee Titans to finish with 6–7 wins
“Feels just right that you know that they're a six or seven win team.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Season Win TotalsKansas City ChiefsMar 20, 2026
Kansas City Chiefs to finish with 11 wins
“winning eleven games was the absolute floor every single year prior to last year. That's too low.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Division WinnersBuffalo BillsMar 20, 2026
Buffalo Bills to win the division
“And I love Buffalo at minus one forty five to win the division... my four division, I have three favorites Chiefs, Bills, Ravens, and the Jags”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Season Win TotalsNew England PatriotsMar 20, 2026
New England Patriots to finish with 9 wins
“I think I think they're a nine win team, so you could say that means it's just right.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Division WinnersKansas City ChiefsMar 20, 2026
Kansas City Chiefs to win the division
“They're still the best team in that division... my four division, I have three favorites Chiefs, Bills, Ravens, and the Jags”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Division WinnersBaltimore RavensMar 20, 2026
Baltimore Ravens to win the division
“Baltimore minus one forty for the division. I just like it... my four division, I have three favorites Chiefs, Bills, Ravens, and the Jags”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Season Win TotalsJacksonville JaguarsMar 20, 2026
Jacksonville Jaguars to finish with 10 wins
“But I believe in the Jags... I think they're a double digit win team... And so that's too low.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Season Win TotalsBuffalo BillsMar 20, 2026
Buffalo Bills to finish with 11 wins
“but they win eleven games every year with Josh Allen, so I I to me, this is a touch too low”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Season Win TotalsDenver BroncosMar 20, 2026
Denver Broncos to finish with 10 wins
“I think this is a touch low... They won fourteen last year, so they could go down by four wins and hit the over. So I think they're an over.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Division WinnersJacksonville JaguarsMar 20, 2026
Jacksonville Jaguars to win the division
“I think the best team in that division... I like Jacksonville a lot at plus one seventy five”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
- Season Win TotalsMiami DolphinsMar 20, 2026
Miami Dolphins to finish with 2 wins
“they are going to be the worst team in the league by a lot. I would be on two win watch for the Miami Dolphins.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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More season win totals
The same kind of call, about other players and teams.
- Colin CowherdSeason Win Totals · Dallas CowboysHit · 100Cowherd projects the NFC East with the Giants winning the division ahead of Philadelphia, Washington and Dallas, pegging the Cowboys as a six- or seven-win team. He also expects Malik Willis to land a big free-agent deal, Kayvon Thibodeaux to be moved, and Baltimore to lose Isaiah Likely, and he floats the Rams reaching on Ty Simpson late in round one.
- Richard ShermanSeason Win Totals · Green Bay PackersClose · 40Sherman previewed every division: he picked Seattle to win the NFC West on a tiebreaker over San Francisco (both 11-11 wins), the Lions over the Packers in the North, the Eagles to run away with the East, Tampa Bay in the South, and Kansas City, Buffalo and the Ravens' division rivals in the AFC. He picked an Eagles–Chiefs Super Bowl with Philadelphia repeating, Joe Burrow for MVP, and gave a top-five power ranking.
- John MiddlekauffSeason Win Totals · San Francisco 49ersClose · 60Middlekauff says Denver's floor is ten wins, predicts Miami implodes to four or five wins and a top-three-or-four draft slot with Tyreek Hill traded, thinks the 49ers beat expectations with nine or ten wins, sees the Patriots at eight or nine wins, calls the Chargers over 9.5 a lock, expects Jared Goff to make five or six Pro Bowls, and says the Packers are flying under the radar.
- Richard ShermanSeason Win Totals · Detroit LionsHit · 100Sherman picks the Chiefs to beat the Bills in the AFC Championship Game despite Buffalo's turnover dominance, and picks the Commanders to upset the Eagles in Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game. He also expects Saquon Barkley to win Offensive Player of the Year, though he hedges that voters may give it to Lamar or Josh Allen.
- Chris BrockmanSeason Win Totals · Carolina PanthersHit · 100Brockman pitched that the Eagles are the NFL's best team and that Saquon Barkley will win MVP as the first non-quarterback since 2011. He also declared the AFC playoff field already set with six weeks to go, said the Cowboys will make the playoffs, predicted Buffalo would blast the 49ers, and reiterated his earlier call that Carolina would win five or six games.
- JP AcostaSeason Win Totals · New York GiantsClose · 40Acosta expects John Harbaugh's Giants to jump to roughly seven wins in year one, and forecast several offseason moves: Aaron Rodgers returning to Pittsburgh, Daniel Jones returning to the Colts, Kirk Cousins being released by Atlanta, and Brandon Aiyuk leaving San Francisco.