Jared Mueller a lifelong Browns fan from Sandusky, Ohio who serves as the Producer for Dawgs By Nature and has been covering the Cleveland Browns for over a decade including at FanSided, The OBR and USA Today.
For 15 of the 32 teams in the NFL, Week 17 already doesn’t matter as they’ve been eliminated from NFL playoff contention. The five teams currently out of playoff seeding but still alive are all two games behind the final wild-card spots in their conferences. Tampa Bay and Seattle each have a better shot at their divisions than the NFC wild card.