Every era.
One roster.Football draft game: chase a 17-0 NFL season

The next team is a surprise. The next pick is yours.

Draft a quarterback, skill players, a kicker and a whole defense from recorded NFL seasons, then see your 17-game record.

How it works

No account needed. Your eligible guest result can appear as Anonymous or under your saved guest name.

A football and a dark helmet on stadium turf at sunset, with a goalpost behind them.
One team revealed. One pick made.
2,022Real team-seasons
19,849Player records
8Roster spots

How it works

Reveal a team

A random NFL team and season is revealed.

Make your pick

Take a player for an open spot, or take the whole defense.

Keep drafting

Reveal another team and build your roster.

See your record

Your roster plays a 17-game season under the game model.

One pick per reveal. No duplicate players. One extra shuffle when your roster can still be completed.

QBQuarterback
RBRunning back
WR1Receiver
WR2Receiver
TETight end
FLEXFlex
KKicker
DEFDefense
A football field. The team defense lines up across the line of scrimmage. The offense shows a quarterback, a running back, two wide receivers, a tight end and a flex player. Special teams shows the kicker.

Choose your draft.

Daily Challenge

One ranked play a day, plus three unranked plays for fun.

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Time Machine

Move between NFL seasons from 1950 to 2025.

Year Draft

Choose one season and draft from its teams.

Choose a season

Franchise Draft

Build across different seasons of one team.

Choose your team
Customize player pool Draft rules Recorded seasons. A game-generated 17-game record.

You’re on the clock.

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Recent drafts

Your saved drafts will appear here.

Your best records

Your best 17-game record in each format.

Complete a Time Machine draft to set your first record.

Leaderboards

See how your roster stacks up.

How football drafts work

Eight picks. Eight roster spots.

Reveal one random NFL team and season, then take one of its players for an open spot, or take that team’s whole defense. Fill QB, RB, two WRs, TE, FLEX, K and DEF. A running back, wide receiver or tight end can fill FLEX. Ends from the early seasons can fill WR, TE or FLEX.

Each player can appear once. Time Machine and Super Bowl Drafts reveal each franchise once, including relocated teams. Year Draft reveals each team from the chosen season once. Franchise Draft uses different seasons of one team. A team you shuffle past counts as shown.

Only Daily has a Pick Clock

The Daily has one ranked play per Eastern day for signed-in accounts, on the same teams for everyone in a different order, plus three unranked plays for anyone on different teams. Each team has a 30-second Pick Clock. At zero, the server picks an eligible player or defense and reveals the next team. Leaving the page doesn’t pause the clock. Your best eligible ranked record counts for that date.

Time Machine, Year, Franchise and Super Bowl Drafts are untimed. Each draft has one extra shuffle when another team can still finish the roster.

Real season statistics

Players show their recorded regular-season totals with that team. A defense shows points allowed per game, that season’s league average and its league rank. Kickers show games played and made/attempted field goals and PATs. Unknown attempts stay unavailable. The collection covers 1950 to 2025. Quarterbacks need 100 pass attempts, or 60 if they led the team in attempts, running backs and fullbacks 50 carries plus receptions, wide receivers and ends 15 receptions and tight ends 10 receptions for the team that season. Seasons with incomplete source statistics are held out.

Your finished roster plays a 17-game season under DreamDraft’s game model. The record is a game estimate. It doesn’t predict or reproduce a real NFL result.

Rankings keep each format separate. More wins rank higher, and equal records share a rank only when their team ratings also match. Each account or guest browser keeps its best eligible result per pool. View football rankings.

Football draft questions

Which spots do I fill?

Fill a quarterback, a running back, two wide receivers, a tight end, a flex spot, a kicker and a team defense. A running back, wide receiver or tight end can fill the flex spot. Ends from the early seasons can fill wide receiver, tight end or flex.

Can I draft a whole defense?

Yes. Every revealed team offers its defense as one pick. A defense is rated from points allowed per game against that season’s league average, and the draft room shows its league rank.

Which seasons are included?

Regular seasons from 1950 to 2025, including the AFL from 1960 to 1969. Some early rosters are missing a player because the source game logs are incomplete.

Is the 17-game record a prediction?

No. The record comes from DreamDraft’s game model, which compares real seasons. It doesn’t predict or reproduce a real NFL season.

Data sources and coverage

Seasons from 1999 on use nflverse data (CC BY 4.0). Earlier player statistics use Pro-Football-Reference game logs and NFL.com career kicking tables captured in public datasets. Earlier team records use FiveThirtyEight's NFL game history. DreamDraft is not affiliated with the NFL, Pro-Football-Reference or Sports Reference.

  • Regular season only.
  • Quarterbacks need 100 pass attempts, or 60 if they led the team in attempts, running backs and fullbacks 50 carries plus receptions, wide receivers and ends 15 receptions and tight ends 10 receptions for the team that season.
  • From 1999, each player keeps the position nflverse lists most often for that team that season. Earlier positions come from Pro-Football-Reference. Fullbacks count as running backs. Ends from the early seasons can fill wide receiver or tight end.
  • A team defense is rated from regular-season points allowed per game against that season's league average and ranked within its league. AFL defenses from 1960 to 1969 are compared with the AFL.
  • Super Bowl winners from the 1966 season on. Earlier NFL and AFL champions are not marked yet.