Inside: Projecting win totals for all 32 teams, plus reactions to the Browns’ decision and the only quarterback competition left.(Are you optimistic about your team, or are you a Browns fan? Either way, we want to hear from you in our annual Hope-O-Meter survey.)This article is from The Athletic’s NFL newsletter. Sign up here to receive it directly in your inbox. It’s free to subscribe. Win totals for all 32Predictions are hard, especially about the future. That proverb, attributed to everyone from Yogi Berra to a Danish Nobel laureate, springs to mind whenever someone asks me about an upcoming NFL season.Regardless, The Athletic staffers dished on whether each team’s expectations should be higher or lower than their statistically projected win totals.In last year’s version of this exercise, eight of our 12 dissenting writers ended up being correct. This year, we happen to have 12 dissenting voices again. Here’s the 2026 list:Among this year’s nine writers who think a team’s projection is too low, the following three thought last season that it was also too low for the same teams. All three proved prescient.Based on that, if any teams are likely to beat expectations, it’s these three:Broncos: Nick Kosmider expected Denver to top last year’s projected 9.2 wins. They won 14. While he doesn’t expect that many Ws again, Nick believes, “There is too much talent on this well-coached roster to see Denver losing eight times.” Agree.Steelers: “I’d put the over/under at 8.7, rounding up to a nine-win season,” wrote Mike DeFabo, who cited the Steelers’ improved roster and play callers. He correctly had Pittsburgh at 10 wins last season, which paired with a playoff loss for the Mike Tomlin special. Can a new Mike (McCarthy) sustain the 22-year streak of not finishing below .500? (I don’t think so, if Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson stay healthy.)Texans: “As crazy as it sounds, their already dominant defense should be even better this year, thanks to additions,” wrote Mike Jones, adding that an improved offense could mean a surprise Super Bowl run. Agree here as well. Mike was equally bullish against last year’s 8.8-win projection, and then Houston went 12-5.