NFL Teams with no wins in a season (8 or more games)[]
Season | Team | Wins | Losses | Ties | Remarks |
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2017 | Cleveland Browns | 0 | 16 | 0 | They returned in 1999, and had the first winless season in franchise history and the second team with a winless season. This is the final winless season with 16 games. |
2008 | Detroit Lions | 0 | 16 | 0 | Most losses in a single season. Detroit was the first non-expansion team to lose every game in a full season since World War II. |
1982 | Baltimore Colts | 0 | 8 | 1 | Strike shortened season. Afterwards, the Colts drafted future Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway with the first pick in the 1983 NFL Draft, but due to protests from Elway before and after the draft, had his rights traded to the Denver Broncos a week later. |
1976 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 0 | 14 | 0 | Team made league debut in 1976. Went on to lose the first 12 games of the 1977 season as well, to start 0-26-0 as a franchise. |
1960 | Dallas Cowboys | 0 | 11 | 1 | Team made league debut in 1960 |
1944 | Brooklyn Tigers | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
1944 | Card-Pitt | 0 | 10 | 0 | Merger between Chicago Cardinals & Pittsburgh Steelers due to player shortages during World War II; the Steelers themselves merged with the Philadelphia Eagles the previous year for the same reasons. The Cardinals (now in the Phoenix area as the Arizona Cardinals) and Steelers eventually played each other in Super Bowl XLIII 64 seasons later. |
1943 | Chicago Cardinals | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
1942 | Detroit Lions | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
1934 | Cincinnati Reds | 0 | 8 | 0 | Folded before the season was over. |
1925 | Columbus Tigers | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
1922 | Columbus Panhandles | 0 | 8 | 0 |
The Rochester Jeffersons went a combined 0-21-2 over four seasons from 1922 to 1925, but in none of those seasons did they ever play more than seven games.