2024 NFL draft first-round order: Carolina Panthers hand Chicago Bears the No. 1 pick-InfoExpress
Chicago Bears, you are now on the clock.
A pre-2023 NFL draft trade that shipped the top pick in last year's draft to the Carolina Panthers has paid off big time for the Bears.
With Sunday's 26-0 defeat against the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Panthers clinched the league's worst record this season, which means the Bears own the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NFL draft.
The draft order is determined by record and uses strength of schedule as a tiebreaker (record and strength of schedule are official tiebreakers to determine the draft order).
The final 14 first-round spots will be determined by playoff results. For now, those teams will be ordered based on playoff seed, if the season ended today.
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The 2024 NFL draft is scheduled to be held in Detroit from April 25-27.
2024 NFL draft first-round order
(as of Dec. 31; * denotes wild-card team and # denotes division leader)
- Chicago Bears (from Panthers) — Carolina Panthers' record: 2-14 (strength of schedule: .520)
- Washington Commanders — Record: 4-12 (.504)
- New England Patriots — Record: 4-12 (.527)
- Arizona Cardinals — Record: 4-12 (.566)
- New York Giants — Record: 5-11 (.500)
- Los Angeles Chargers — Record: 5-11 (.520)
- Tennessee Titans — Record: 5-11 (.527)
- New York Jets — Record: 6-10 (.523)
- Atlanta Falcons — Record: 7-9 (.418)
- Chicago Bears — Record: 7-9 (.461)
- Las Vegas Raiders — Record: 7-9 (.488)
- Minnesota Vikings — Record: 7-9 (.496)
- New Orleans Saints — Record: 8-8 (.430)
- Denver Broncos — Record: 8-8 (.488)
- Seattle Seahawks — Record: 8-8 (.531)
- Cincinnati Bengals — Record: 8-8 (.574)
- Arizona Cardinals (from Texans) — Houston Texans' record: 9-7 (.473)
- Pittsburgh Steelers — Record: 9-7 (.527)
- *Green Bay Packers — Record: 8-8 (.473)
- *Indianapolis Colts — Record: 9-7 (.480)
- *Los Angeles Rams — Record: 9-7 (.520)
- *Buffalo Bills — Record: 10-6 (.457)
- *Philadelphia Eagles — Record: 11-5 (.484)
- *Houston Texans (from Browns) — Cleveland Browns' record: 11-5 (.539)
- #Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Record: 8-8 (.508)
- #Jacksonville Jaguars — Record: 9-7 (.543)
- #Kansas City Chiefs — Record: 10-6 (.496)
- #Miami Dolphins — Record: 11-5 (.434)
- #Dallas Cowboys — Record: 11-5 (.461)
- #Detroit Lions — Record: 11-5 (.484)
- #San Francisco 49ers — Record: 12-4 (.504)
- #Baltimore Ravens — Record: 13-3 (.543)
Teams without a first-round pick: Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns