We did it! Thanks to another concerted whole team effort by the Commanders, and a continuation of their amazing run of help from other teams, Ron Rivera’s team has reached the apex of their climb up the draft order. Last week, the 4-11 Commanders had reached third place, and found themselves in a neck and neck battle with the 4-11 Patriots to win the strength of schedule (SoS) tiebreak to retain their draft position.
Moving any higher would require the 3-12 Arizona Cardinals to stage one of the upsets of the season on the road against the 11-4 Eagles (-12.