List of NFL franchise post-season droughts
Seasons Since Win Team Last playoff game win Loss Streak Playoff Losses - Teams
29 Cincinnati Bengals 1990 AFC Wild Card 8 ♦ 1990 Divisional - Los Angeles Raiders 2005 Wild Card - Pittsburgh 2009 Wild Card - New York Jets 2011 Wild Card - Houston 2012 Wild Card - Houston 2013 Wild Card - San Diego 2014 Wild Card - Indianapolis 2015 Wild Card - Pittsburgh
28 Detroit Lions 1991 NFC Divisional 9 ♣ ♣ 1991 NFC Championship - Washington 1993 Wild Card - Green Bay 1994 Wild Card - Green Bay 1995 Wild Card - Philadelphia 1997 Wild Card - Tampa Bay 1999 Wild Card - Washington 2011 Wild Card - New Orleans 2014 Wild Card - Dallas 2016 Wild Card - Seattle
24 Buffalo Bills 1995 AFC Wild Card 6 ♦ 1995 Divisional - Pittsburgh 1996 Wild Card - Jacksonville 1998 Wild Card - Miami 1999 Wild Card - Tennessee 2017 Wild Card - Jacksonville 2019 Wild Card - Houston
22** Cleveland Browns 1994 AFC Wild Card 2 1994 Divisional - Pittsburgh 2002 Wild Card - Pittsburgh
19 Miami Dolphins 2000 AFC Wild Card 4 ¤ 2000 Divisional - Oakland 2001 Wild Card - Baltimore 2008 Wild Card - Baltimore 2016 Wild Card - Pittsburgh
17 Las Vegas Raiders 2002 AFC Championship 2 ¤ 2002 Super Bowl - Tampa Bay 2016 Wild Card - Houston
17 Tampa Bay Buccaneers † Super Bowl XXXVII 2 2005 Wild Card - Washington 2007 Wild Card - New York Giants
14 Washington Redskins 2005 NFC Wild Card 4 ¤ 2005 Divisional - Seattle 2007 Wild Card - Seattle 2012 Wild Card - Seattle 2015 Wild Card - Green Bay
9 New York Jets 2010 AFC Divisional 1 2010 AFC Championship - Pittsburgh
9 Chicago Bears 2010 NFC Divisional 2 2010 NFC Championship - Green Bay 2018 Wild Card - Philadelphia
8 New York Giants Super Bowl XLVI 1 2016 Wild Card - Green Bay
5 Baltimore Ravens 2014 AFC Wild Card 3 ¤ 2014 Divisional - New England 2018 Wild Card - Los Angeles Chargers 2019 Divisional - Tennessee
4 Arizona Cardinals 2015 NFC Divisional 1 2015 NFC Championship - Carolina
4 Carolina Panthers 2015 NFC Championship 2 2015 Super Bowl - Denver 2017 Wild Card - New Orleans
4 Denver Broncos Super Bowl 50 0 3-game win streak
3 Pittsburgh Steelers 2016 AFC Divisional 2 2016 AFC Championship - New England 2017 Divisional - Jacksonville
2 Atlanta Falcons 2017 NFC Wild Card 1 2017 Divisional - Philadelphia
2 Jacksonville Jaguars 2017 AFC Divisional 1 2017 AFC Championship - New England
1 Indianapolis Colts 2018 AFC Wild Card 1 2018 Divisional - Kansas City
1 Los Angeles Chargers 2018 AFC Wild Card 1 2018 Divisional - New England
Active team droughts -- Playoff game victory droughts
Updated through the 2019–20 Playoffs Sortable table , click on header arrows . 0^0 Longest drought in team history 0†0 Tied for longest drought in team history 0♦0 Most consecutive losses in team history 0¤0 Tied for most consecutive losses in team history 0♣ ♣0 Most consecutive losses in NFL history
This is a list of current National Football League (NFL) franchise post-season and Super Bowl droughts (multiple consecutive seasons of not winning). Listed here are both appearance droughts and winning droughts in almost every level of the NFL playoff system. As of the 2018 NFL season, every active NFL team has qualified for and won a game in the playoffs. Teams that have never made it beyond each successive milestone are listed under the year in which they began NFL play. Of the 12 teams that have never won the Super Bowl, four (4) are expansion franchises younger than the Super Bowl itself (Bengals, Panthers, Jaguars, and the Texans). The Falcons began playing during the season in which the Super Bowl was first played. The seven (7) other clubs (Cardinals, Lions, Oilers/Titans, Chargers, Browns, Bills, and Vikings) all won an NFL or AFL championship prior to the AFL-NFL merger; in the case of the Vikings, however, the Super Bowl existed at the time they won their league title, leaving them and the Falcons as the only two teams to have existed for as long as or longer than the Super Bowl that have never secured the highest championship available to them. The longest drought since a championship of any kind is that of the Cardinals, at 72 seasons. Note that for continuity purposes, the Cleveland Browns are officially considered to have suspended operations for the 1996, 1997, and 1998 seasons. Since returning 21 years ago, they have only made the playoffs once, while the Baltimore Ravens are considered to be a separate team that began play in 1996. The Ravens, as a result of the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, absorbed the Browns' personnel upon their suspension, but not their history.