We're just two weeks into the new NFL season, but already nine 0-2 teams are staring deep into the abyss of a potentially lost season.
Since the NFL expanded to seven playoff teams in each conference in 2020, just one of 23 teams (4.3%) that started 0-2 went on to make the playoffs. That was last year's Bengals, and they're the only 0-2 team to make the postseason since 2018.
Going back a little longer to 1990, only 31 of 270 teams (11.5%) started 0-2 and still made the playoffs, and only three went on to win the Super Bowl.
That probably sounds ominous for your favorite 0-2 squad, but at least they still have a chance. The 2018 Texans are the only team since the 2002 expansion and realignment to s tart 0-3 and make the playoffs, and the 1992 Chargers are the only 0-4 team in league history to bounce back to make the postseason.