While each NFL team is organically handed seven draft picks per season, trades involving draft choices and the compensatory pick process ensures that many clubs end up with more (or fewer) than their original seven selections. As always, you can view the complete 2018 draft order, but here we’ll look at how much draft capital each club has amassed.
Let’s take a look at how many draft picks each NFL club currently possesses:
Updated 4-8-18 (1:47pm CT)
12 picks
- Green Bay Packers
11 picks
- Cincinnati Bengals
- Oakland Raiders
10 picks
- Dallas Cowboys
9 picks
- Buffalo Bills
- Cleveland Browns
- Indianapolis Colts
- San Francisco 49ers
8 picks
- Arizona Cardinals
- Baltimore Ravens
- Carolina Panthers
- Denver Broncos
- Houston Texans
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Los Angeles Rams
- Miami Dolphins
- Minnesota Vikings
- New England Patriots
- New Orleans Saints
- Seattle Seahawks
- Washington Redskins
7 picks
- Atlanta Falcons
- Chicago Bears
- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Los Angeles Chargers
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
6 picks
- Detroit Lions
- New York Giants
- New York Jets
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Tennessee Titans
Of course, not all draft picks are created equally, as holding more early-round selections is eminently more valuable than collecting mid-to-late round picks. Using Chase Stuart of Football Perspective‘s draft value chart, we can calculate how many draft capital points each team owns heading into the 2018 NFL draft:
- Cleveland Browns: 102.8
- Indianapolis Colts: 74.1
- Buffalo Bills: 72.9
- New York Giants: 65.8
- Denver Broncos: 62.6
- New England Patriots: 53.5
- Green Bay Packers: 52.5
- San Francisco 49ers: 52.2
- Oakland Raiders: 49.4
- Cincinnati Bengals: 49.2
- Chicago Bears: 46.6
- Miami Dolphins: 45.6
- Dallas Cowboys: 44.4
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 44.0
- New York Jets: 43.8
- Arizona Cardinals: 41.8
- Baltimore Ravens: 41.1
- Los Angeles Chargers: 40.8
- Washington Redskins: 39.5
- Detroit Lions: 38.5
- Tennessee Titans: 36.0
- Atlanta Falcons: 33.2
- Carolina Panthers: 33.0
- Pittsburgh Steelers: 32.9
- Jacksonville Jaguars: 31.8
- Kansas City Chiefs: 31.2
- Seattle Seahawks: 30.7
- Minnesota Vikings: 30.4
- New Orleans Saints: 30.2
- Houston Texans: 27.6
- Los Angeles Rams: 22.7
- Philadelphia Eagles: 22.2
Dang the Browns have almost 5x as much draft capital as the SB champs…
And they will find a way to screw it up…….nothing new.
Not this time one would hope
I didn’t realize Green Bay had that many picks this year. They should be able to move up if they see the need to
Chase Stuart hasn’t updated his ‘value chart’ in 6 years…probably realizing that the thing is worthless.
The Patriots won a title just 2 years ago without a first round pick and coach George Allen never had a losing season despite dealing away the Redskins top pick every season.
I don’t understand how the eagles have less capital than the Texans when the Texans don’t even have a first or second round pick.
I didn’t realize Cleveland owns Philly’s 2nd rounder.. but I still stand by my statement since the eagles still have their first round pick.
Three 3rds and the 4th pick in round 4 is better than just the 32nd overall and no 2nds or 3rds and last pick in the 4th.
Would it be though? If Texans offered the 3 thirds and the fourth for eagles 1st and 4th, what are the odds the eagles would accept ?
Yes, I understand the eagles were a playoff team last year and likely expect to be back to the dance this year so in their eyes, their team would have less holes to fill so they’d probably value quality over quantity. But if I’m the Texans, I’d still value a potential starter / impact player over the depth then expect from the 3rd round picks.