may be eliminated from the playoffs, but much of the rest of the NFL still has high stakes to play for this weekend. From playoff seeding to draft order, Week 18 is when the whole NFL season snaps into focus.
For the Panthers, that means figuring out where they will pick in the draft. They hold the ninth overall pick entering this week and could move as high as the sixth pending Sunday’s results. The Las Vegas Raiders (+9)
, the Atlanta Falcons (-4), and the Detroit Lions (+5) (via the Los Angeles Rams (+6)) hold the eighth, seventh, and sixth picks, respectively.