User:Stismail/2009 NFL Draft order

The draft order is generally based on each team's regular season record, as follows:


 * 1) The team that wins Super Bowl XLIII receives the last selection. The team that loses receives the second-to-last selection.
 * 2) The remaining teams are sorted in reverse order of regular-season records, regardless of playoff status.
 * 3) For teams with the same regular-season record, teams that did not make the playoffs pick before teams that earned playoff berths.
 * 4) For teams that did not make the playoffs, remaining ties are broken by strength of schedule (SOS). A team's strength of schedule is the combined records of its opponents, including games played against the team in question, counting teams against which the team played two games twice. (Ties count as half a win.)
 * 5) If strength of schedule does not resolve a tie, division and/or conference tiebreakers are used.
 * 6) Any remaining ties are broken by a coin toss at the NFL Combine.
 * 7) For teams that make the playoffs, ties are broken by the order in which teams lost in the playoffs. If teams lost in the same round, strength of schedule is applied.

Additionally, the teams are divided into bands, indicated by shading. Within each band, the team that picks first in one round will pick last in the next round. So, for example, St. Louis will pick first in round one, Kansas City in round two, St. Louis in round three, and so on.

Please note this table does not give the actual current order of the first round (including draft trades), only the preliminary draft order based on the results of the 2008 regular season and the playoffs. Team names in bold indicates that the team qualified for playoffs.