Wild Card Weekend is in the books, with six NFL teams advancing to the divisional round of the playoffs and another six heading home for an early start to the 2025 offseason. While hopes are high for the clubs that remain,

The first round of the 2025 NFL is over. So if you're a fan of a team that lost in the playoffs, this is here to help you feel slightly better, because the ones with worse records ended up with decent draft picks.

Every Steelers season since 2018 has followed what’s becoming an all-too-familiar refrain. Pittsburgh has won the AFC North just once in this span and has hovered somewhere between eight to 10 wins in every other year — sufficient to cling to the “no losing seasons” line but not nearly good enough to ever be a needle-mover in the conference.