NFL Draft Order 2014: Current List of Selections and Projections

We now have a strong idea of where every team will make their selection in the 2014 NFL draft with one week left in the season, provided they have one to use.

Week 16 did much to sort out the draft list, which gives fans a brief amount of time to digest where their favorite team picks before Week 17 hits and potentially causes another upheaval.

Which it will. For now, we can accurately list the order and get a good sense of a projected final order through careful analysis of remaining games, tiebreakers and the like. Here is how things shape up, both officially and with projections, with one week to go.

No.	Official Order After Week 16	Projected Final Order
1	Houston Texans	Houston Texans
2	St. Louis Rams (from Washington)	St. Louis Rams (from Washington)
3	Jacksonville Jaguars	Minnesota Vikings
4	Oakland Raiders	Atlanta Falcons
5	Cleveland Browns	Oakland Raiders
6	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Tampa Bay Buccaneers
7	Atlanta Falcons	Pittsburgh Steelers
8	Minnesota Vikings	Jacksonville Jaguars
9	Tennessee Titans	Cleveland Browns
10	New York Giants	New York Giants
11	Buffalo Bills	Tennessee Titans
12	Detroit Lions	Buffalo Bills
13	Pittsburgh Steelers	New York Jets
14	New York Jets	Green Bay Packers
15	St. Louis Rams	Detroit Lions
16	Green Bay Packers	St. Louis Rams
17	Dallas Cowboys	Baltimore Ravens
18	Baltimore Ravens	Chicago Bears
19	San Diego Chargers	Dallas Cowboys
20	Miami Dolphins	Miami Dolphins
21	Chicago Bears	Philadelphia Eagles
22	Philadelphia Eagles	San Diego Chargers
23	Cincinnati Bengals	Cleveland Browns (from Indianapolis)
24	Cleveland Browns (from Indianapolis)	San Francisco 49ers
25	Arizona Cardinals	New Orleans Saints
26	New Orleans Saints	Arizona Cardinals
27	San Francisco 49ers	Cincinnati Bengals
28	Kansas City Chiefs	Carolina Panthers
29	New England Patriots	New England Patriots
30	Carolina Panthers	Kansas City Chiefs
31	Denver Broncos	Seattle Seahawks
32	Seattle Seahawks	Denver Broncos

Week 17 Contests That Could Most Alter Draft Order

Washington Redskins vs. New York Giants

The St. Louis Rams are doing a quality job of sticking around in the top-10 discussion with their own pick thanks to horrid play, but they never in 1,000 years could have imagined the Washington Redskins may net them a top-two pick in the 2014 draft.

Alas, that is where Robert Griffin III and coach Mike Shanahan's circus have the Rams looking at through 16 weeks.

However, St. Louis' plan for a top-two pick could be foiled when the Redskins make the trip to New York to take on the Giants, a team that at some points has looked equally as horrible. These two met in a Week 13 stinker, where New York escaped with a seven-point win.

This one will be just as bad with Washington rolling with a backup quarterback in Kirk Cousins and Eli Manning continuing his laughably bad play—he's now at an impressive 16 touchdowns to 25 interceptions on the year.

It does not matter—the Rams will tune in attentively regardless of quality.

Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Indianapolis Colts

Jacksonville is a wild card in all of this (not of the playoff variety, silly) because of a few factors.

For one, the Jaguars have been relatively competitive as of late, winning three of their last five. Two straight losses have been by a touchdown or less.

Two, the Indianapolis Colts are mostly notorious for playing up and down to competition this year. That would explain a 38-8 loss to St. Louis in Week 10, but a 23-7 win over Kansas City in Week 16.

So yes, the Jaguars can very much beat the Colts at home to close the season, and yes, it would add even more chaos to the draft order. Jacksonville sits firmly in the No. 2-7 range, but its movement will either anger or make many other teams happy once Week 17 is in the books.

Houston Texans vs. Tennessee Titans

This is the type of torture dedicated fans must endure to be rewarded on draft day.

The Houston Texans are making it a wee bit too obvious they want the No. 1 overall pick. They have lost 13 straight, but one of their two wins this season came over the Tennessee Titans in Week 2 via a 30-24 overtime result.

Tennessee itself is doing a good job of sticking around in the top 10, winning just three games since Week 5.

But the real focus is on Houston, a franchise seemingly destined for the No. 1 overall pick. Not only that, but Houston's win or loss here will have a major ripple effect on the draft order, as CBS Sports' Dan Brugler elaborates:

Once again, the Rams will have the biggest rooting interest of all in a game outside of their own. Despite the horrible streak, Houston is more than capable of pulling off a win on the road against a team that it already defeated and is even worse now with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback.