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In the 2024 NFL season, the Washington Commanders broke the 3rd active longest postseason drought of not winning a playoff game. They also broke their drought of being the 5th longest team of not appearing in a conference championship game (Dallas, Cleveland, Miami, Las Vegas Raiders and Houston Texans now hold that drought).

In the 2025 NFL season, the Chicago Bears brought their drought of being the T-3rd longest active team of not winning a playoff game (New York Jets, Vegas Raiders, and Miami now hold that title).

Here are the current standings of teams currently longest tenured of not appearing in the playoffs:

New York Jets: last appearance in the postseason, 2010 season.

Atlanta Falcons: last appearance in the postseason, 2017

Every other NFL team has made the playoffs in the 2020’s decade, at least 1 time since.

Longest active droughts of no playoff wins:

Miami Dolphins: 2000 season, 25 years.

Las Vegas Raiders: 2002 season, 23 years.

New York Jets: 2010 season, 15 years

Arizona Cardinals: 2015 season, 10 years

Carolina Panthers: 2015 season, 10 years

Pittsburgh Steelers: 2016 season, 9 years

Atlanta Falcons: 2017 season, 8 years

Indianapolis Colts: 2018 season, 7 years

LA Chargers: 2018 season, 7 years

Minnesota Vikings: 2019 season, 6 years

Tennessee Titans: 2019 season, 6 years

Every other team has won a playoff game in 2020’s decade.