Cardinals Hold 1st Overall Pick Selection After Final NFL Weekend
Frank Coyle/ Publisher – Head Scout
NFL Draft 2019 Selection Order – The Cardinals are ‘On the Clock’!
The Arizona Cardinals are ‘On the Clock’ with the first overall selection for the NFL Draft 2019. They earned the top overall draft choice off the horrible 3-13 record. Rookie head coach Steve Wilks inherited a roster in transition with top pick, QB Josh Rosen struggling through his initial campaign. Their recent overall draft decisions have been weak. Wilks was fired on Monday after only one season
Arizona finished with the #1 selection off their 3-13 record. The 49ers earned the 2nd overall selection off opponent’s won/loss records, though tied with #3 Jets and #4 Oakland at 4-12. The Bucs, Giants and Jaguars hold the #5 thru #7 overall choices on the merit of their poor 5-11 records. There is a logjam with four clubs at 6-10 that will impact the top half of the first round over the final Sunday of the 2018 season. Detroit, Buffalo, Denver and Cincinnati hold the #8 through #11 selections.
Opponents’ W-L record determine all tie situations. Teams that are still tied will flip though none necessary this year. Playoff teams will shuffle according to their postseason results to determine the final top 32 selections.
Teams’ upcoming decisions in both veteran Free Agency and the NFL Draft 2019 will dictate the movement of many players this offseason especially among the premier selections.
Playoffs – Conference & Super Bowl games determine final positions
x – division winner y – playoff berth
# Team W-L / Opp W-L %
1 Arizona 3-13 .527
2 San Francisco 4-12 .504
3 NY Jets 4-12 .506
4 Oakland 4-12 .547
5 Tampa Bay 5-11 .523
6 NY Giants 5-11 .527
7 Jacksonville 5-11 .547
8 Detroit 6-10 .504
9 Buffalo 6-10 .523
10 Denver 6-10 .523
11 Cincinnati 6-10 .535
12 Green Bay 6-9-1 .488
13 Miami 7-9 .469
14 Atlanta 7-9 .482
15 Washington 7-9 .486
16 Carolina 7-9 .508
17 Cleveland 7-8-1 .516
18 Minnesota 8-7-1 .504
19 Tennessee 9-7 .520
20 Pittsburgh 9-6-1 .504
21 y Philadelphia 9-7 .518
22 y Indianapolis 10-6 .465
23 y Seattle 10-6 .484
24 x Oakland (Dallas) 10-6 .488
25 y Baltimore 10-6 .496
26 x Houston 11-5 .471
27 x New England 11-5 .482
28 x Oakland (Chicago) 12-4 .430
29 y LA Chargers 12-4 .477
30 x LA Rams 13-3 .480
31 x Kansas City 12-4 .480
32 x Green Bay (New Orleans) 13-3 .482
Team tie-breaking procedure for the NFL Draft
If two or more clubs are tied in the selection order, the strength-of-schedule tie breaker is applied, subject to the following exceptions for playoff clubs: The Super Bowl winner is last and the Super Bowl loser next-to-last. Any non-Super Bowl playoff club involved in a tie shall be assigned priority within its segment below that of non-playoff clubs and in the order that the playoff clubs exited from the playoffs. Within a tied segment a playoff club that loses in the Wild-Card game will have priority over a playoff club that loses in the Divisional playoff game that in turn will have priority over a club that loses in the Conference Championship game. If two tied clubs exited the playoffs in the same round, the tie is broken by strength of schedule. If any ties cannot be broken by strength of schedule, the divisional or conference tie breakers, when applicable, are applied. Any ties that still exist are broken by a coin flip.
