From nepotism to staggeringly bad contracts: the NFL’s most hopeless franchises

Plenty of the league's teams are bad. But there are a select few for whom hopes of a turnaround in fortunes are a distant prospect

Five years ago, we looked at the teams vying for the championship belt of incompetence. If a lesson came from the exercise - the Chargers, Commanders and Texans made the list - it's that a young franchise quarterback can transform a team's fortunes pretty quickly. The other lesson is that Woody Johnson is a consistently awful owner. Anyway, here's our latest list of woe.