Through 58 years of Super Bowl history, 20 of the NFL’s 32 teams have won football’s ultimate prize at least once. 12 are still waiting for their first, while many other organizations have been waiting decades — and counting — to place that next one in the trophy room.
So, when is the lucky year coming for all 32 NFL teams? Allow us to peer into our crystal ball and spoil the future by letting you know when your favorite NFL team will next win the Super Bowl.
Arizona Cardinals: 2047
It’s hard to see a clear-cut path to a title given the lack of talent around Kyler Murray, but good fortunes await this snake-bitten franchise in the 2040s. We can feel it.
2047 will be the year the Cardinals end the longest title drought in North American sports — 100 years after the organization won its last NFL championship in 1947. Plan the parade in Arizona, and get those hats printed!
Atlanta Falcons: 2034
The guess here is that the Falcons will have found their next franchise QB within three years. It will take some time to build a contender from there and get on par with the other top dogs in the NFC — but we can see it coming.
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Can’t exactly see a championship coming this decade, but given their successful draft history, it feels like the next title window will have rolled around by 2030. After a few more playoff heartbreaks, Atlanta will have finally broken through in 2024.
Baltimore Ravens: 2027
The Ravens have endured plenty of postseason heartbreak in the Lamar Jackson era. At some point, the bounces simply have to go their way…right?
One day, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs will have a bad day in January — and the Ravens will pounce on that opportunity. With a franchise QB, a Hall of Fame head coach and the league’s best scouting group, the Ravens will be in the mix for years to come.
.Surely, their next championship is coming this decade. Our guess? 2027.
Buffalo Bills: 2100
The Bills just can’t have nice things — as evidenced by their constant failures to get over the AFC hump with Josh Allen and Sean McDermott.
Some franchises are just permanently jinxed, and the universe won’t let Buffalo fans heal from their annual heartbreak in this century.
Wait for the start of the next century, Bills mafia.
Carolina Panthers: 2043
If he’s still the Panthers’ owner by 2043, 86-year-old David Tepper will have hopefully learned to stop being so hands-on by this point.
Tepper, like Dan Snyder in Washington, is single-handedly preventing his team from properly constructing a championship contender. Hopefully, within the next 15 or so years, he’ll learn to keep his mouth shut, let the football operations do things their way and finally celebrate a title on his luxury yacht in 2043.
Chicago Bears: 2032
This is going off the assumption the Bears use the first overall pick on Caleb Williams.
The 2022 Heisman Trophy winner has everything you need in a franchise QB, but it’s going to take Chicago some time to build a championship contender around his talents. Factor in the superior teams in the NFC, and it’s safe to say Bears nation will need to wait patiently for that long-awaited second Lombardi Trophy.
It’ll come within the next 10 years with Williams steering the ship.…just not in the immediate future.
Cincinnati Bengals: 2024
With a healthy Joe Burrow back in full force, the Bengals are the early pick here to win Super Bowl 59.
The Bengals are the only AFC team capable of beating Mahomes’ Chiefs in the postseason, as we saw in the 2021 AFC title game. Burrow’s 3-and-1 record against Mahomes is further evidence that the Chiefs are beatable in the AFC.
If there’s one team that’s going to end the Chiefs’ bid at a third straight big game appearance, it’s those very Bengals who will go on to win next year’s Super Bowl.
Cleveland Browns: 2060
As the Browns aren’t allowed to have nice things either, we expect their championship drought to be near 100 years before the group finally breaks through in 2060.
Sorry, Browns fans. We don’t make the rules. There’s just some force out there that makes Cleveland football fans suffer annually. Hey, the Chicago Cubs had to wait 108 years, so what’s 96 years to your championship-starved fanbase?
Dallas Cowboys: 2086
Stephen Jones appears to be like his father, Jerry. As long as the Cowboys pile up regular-season wins, they’re happy. It’s all that matters — not Super Bowl championships.
So don’t expect the Cowboys to win another title in Jerry’s lifespan. And probably not when Stephen takes over as the owner. The Cowboys’ sixth Lombardi Trophy will come with the third or fourth generation of the Jones family ownership.
Denver Broncos: 2044
With few franchise cornerstone players and a head coach in his 60s, it’s hard to see a clear path to immediate title contention for the Broncos. Without Peyton Manning’s arrival in 2012, this franchise would have the entire 2010s mired in mediocrity.
And with most of Denver’s AFC rivals boasting young franchise QBs, we just can’t see a title coming to Mile High City over the next decade. Our crystal ball tells us that the next magical year for Broncos Country will be 2024.
Detroit Lions: 2028
The Lions took a huge step forward in 2023, reaching their first NFC Championship Game since 1991. Regardless of how you feel about Dan Campbell, it’s only a matter of time until these guys breakthrough.
There can only be one winner in a 32-team league, so we can’t assume anything in the NFL. Still, the Lions are loaded with young talent everywhere and should be a bonafide title contender for years to come, so allow us to roll the dice on them being the Super Bowl champs in 2028.
Green Bay Packers: 2031
We’d love to pick the Packers sooner, but like we just said on the Lions entry — there’s only room for one champion.
The Packers have a top QB-coach pairing in Jordan Love and Matt LaFleur, and the Brian Gutekunst-led front office has always crushed it at the draft table.
The Pack have a way to go in closing the gap with the other Super Bowl contenders across the league, but we foresee a Lombardi Trophy coming their way within the next 10 years. Put ‘em down as your 2031 champs.
Houston Texans: 2030
The Texans emerged as a contender much earlier than expected, in year one of the DeMeco Ryans-CJ Stroud era. If Houston played in the NFC, we’d project them to win it all a little sooner.
But all those other elite teams in the AFC need a share of the pie as well, so patience is a virtue in H-Town. The Texans will go through their fair share of heartbreak before winning it all, but a Lombardi Trophy is coming by the start of the 2030s decade.
A pure winner like Stroud will make sure of it.
Indianapolis Colts: 2053
We like the foundation the Colts are building with Shane Steichen and Anthony Richardson, but there isn’t enough star power or roster depth for Indy to realistically push for a Super Bowl in the near future.
We’re taking a shot in the dark here and guessing the title drought will last at least another quarter-century. I mean, this team hasn’t been all that great in the post-Peyton Manning era…
Jacksonville Jaguars: 2036
We can see Trevor Lawrence following a similar path as Hall of Famer John Elway: Plenty of postseason heartbreak — maybe even several Super Bowl defeats — before breaking through at the end of his career.
If the Jaguars were a better-run organization with competent ownership and front-office decision-makers, we’d have them down for winning it all much sooner. But like Elway, Lawrence will need to go through several coaches and changes on the supporting cast before finally breaking through…in 2036!
Kansas City Chiefs: 2026
The Chiefs cemented themselves as a dynasty by winning Super Bowl 58 — becoming the first team to repeat since the 2003 and ‘04 New England Patriots.
Clearly, it won’t be long until they add title No. 4 in the Patrick Mahomes-Andy Reid era. You can buy talent, but you can’t buy their championship swagger and clutch gene. Within three seasons, Mahomes will have his fourth Super Bowl.
Las Vegas Raiders: 2069
Mark Davis is okay with mediocrity, and so we can’t realistically expect a Raiders’ Super Bowl championship as long as he remains the owner.
The Raiders are looking at more decades of misery before they win a fourth Super Bowl title. We can’t give away much, but something tells us their next title celebration will come 100 years after the moon landing. Dun dun dun…
Los Angeles Chargers: 2110
The Chargers are in that boat with the Bills, Browns and Vikings as teams who can’t have nice things. We don’t care how many superstars they have in any given year; this team just finds new ways to underachieve on an annual basis.
With only one Super Bowl appearance in nearly 60 years of history, why can’t the Bolts make it over a century-long wait to win it all?
This century has been cruel to them, so let’s wait until the next one for the Bolts to finally break through…
Los Angeles Rams: 2039
With Matt Stafford, Cooper Kupp and Aaron Donald getting up there in age, it’s tough to see the Rams squeaking out one more Lombardi Trophy run. A painful long-term rebuild — likely without Sean McVay — is down the line.
Fittingly enough, it will be the 40-year anniversary of the Rams’ first Super Bowl championship when they win lucky Lombardi Trophy No. 3 in 2039.
Miami Dolphins: 2033
The Dolphins have slowly but surely built a relevant team under GM Chris Grier and Tua Tagovailoa.
There’s plenty of competition in the AFC that will make life hard for the ‘Phins in ending their lengthy Super Bowl drought…but we see a scenario where they win it all with Tua — or his eventual successor — early next decade.
Minnesota Vikings: 2048
Why not 2048? 50 years after Gary Anderson’s unforgettable miss in the 1998 NFC Championship Game?!
This fanbase has been so brutally snake-bitten that it’s hard to think they’ll realistically win a Super Bowl within the next decade or two.
But we just know some form of sorcery out there will end the jinx…and it’ll fittingly end 50 years after the post painful loss in history. See you then — downtown Minneapolis — for the parade!
New England Patriots: 2055
Without two GOATS — Tom Brady and Bill Belichick — we wish the Patriots luck in building a sustainable long-term winner again. Especially considering all of the elite QBs they must deal with in the AFC.
We can see this championship drought spanning decades and decades since GOATS like Brady and Belichick don’t grow on trees. 2055 is a long way away, but also just feels like the right timeline for this club to next win it all.
New Orleans Saints: 2035
The Saints don’t want to admit it, but the window on this current group closed long ago. But longtime GM Mickey Loomis has masterfully constructed multiple rebuilds in the Big Easy, so we don’t think the Saints’ next window of opportunity is super-duper far away.
By 2030, a young Saints nucleus could be ready to jump into contention. Give ‘em 2035 as the year it all comes together for Lombardi Trophy No. 2.
New York Giants: 2065
Nothing about this current Giants’ team screams “Super Bowl” contender.
And since New York sports fans haven’t had nice things since the Giants’ last Super Bowl championship in 2011, we believe the Big Apple is destined to suffer through a decades-long championship drought.
Not to worry, Giants fans. Give it 41 more years, and then you’ll be celebrating again!
New York Jets: 2060
92 years after the franchise won its first Super Bowl with Joe Namath? I mean, why not?
The Jets haven’t done much of anything right since the ‘70s. They aren’t going to win jack with Woody and Christopher Johnson as the owners here, so Jets fans may as well patiently wait another 30-plus years for the next Lombardi Trophy.
At least those Knicks look good, and the Yankees might do something with Juan Soto joining forces with Aaron Judge?
Philadelphia Eagles: 2029
We’re still convinced the Jalen Hurts-led Eagles are bound to win a Super Bowl eventually. It won’t happen in the next few years according to our latest projections, but certainly before the calendar flips to the 2030s.
While Hurts is still in his prime, he’ll have delivered the Eagles that long-awaited second Super Bowl title in 2029.
Pittsburgh Steelers: 2042
The Steelers are always in postseason contention, but it’s been a while since they’ve fielded a true Super Bowl-caliber team. Without a true franchise QB in place, we’re struggling to see them winning anything in a crowded AFC over the next decade.
Not to worry, Black and Gold fans. The next championship is merely less than two decades away now. Our crystal ball tells us that it’s happening in 2042.
San Francisco 49ers: 2025
The 49ers have suffered two heartbreaking Super Bowl losses now in the Kyle Shanahan era.
This core is too talented and too well-coached to not win it all eventually, It might not happen right away in 2024, but 2025 feels like a safe bet given that most of their core players will still be in their respective primes.
After a 30-year wait, Lombardi Trophy No. 6 finally comes home to the West Coast.
Seattle Seahawks: 2063
50 years after their first Super Bowl championship in franchise history? Why the heck not?
By the 2060s, Seattle will have fielded the Legion of Boom 3 or 4.0 — reminding us young fans of today that defense still wins championships. The 2063 Seahawks bully their way to a Super Bowl title with a suffocating defense and a pure power-back comparable to Marshawn Lynch.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 2038
The Bucs waited 18 years between their first two Super Bowl championships.
Because history and trends are a funny thing, why shouldn’t it be 18 years before their third title — meaning the fourth one will come in 2056…right? Right?
Tennessee Titans: 2040
This current Titans core has too many questions and such few blue-chip talents to realistically compete for a Super Bowl any time soon. So why 2040?
Well, Patrick Mahomes MIGHT be done by then. Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson and Tua Tagovailoa too! The Titans will have been so bad for a while that they’ll have drafted a top-tier QB well before the 2040s to build their franchise around.
Washington Commanders: 2099
100 years after the stench of the Dan Snyder era began…how fitting it would be if the Commanders waited until the last year of the century to end the drought?
It’s not only fitting, it’s also what’s going to happen. Just you watch!
Who do you think will win the next five Super Bowls?
