NFL: Predicting Super Bowl winner, playoff teams and individual awards for the 2022 season

The NFL is a season that is highly unpredictable, but that isn’t going to stop us from trying to join in the fun and giving you our predictions for the season ahead.

The NFL returns tonight and will see the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams host the Buffalo Bills in what will be the first of a 272 game season which means there will be some form of NFL football on every week between now and the Super Bowl on February 12th. 

Now there are a lot of aspects that go into an NFL season that as we touched on earlier are very hard to predict, for instance what would the 2008 New England Patriots have done coming off their 18-1 season in 2007 if Tom Brady hadn’t got injured in the very first game?

Or there could be a team that comes out of nowhere and takes us all by surprise like last year’s Cincinnati Bengals off the back of Joe Burrow coming back from injury and rookie wide reciever Ja’Marr Chase lighting it up right out of college. 

So there’s a good chance that all of these are right, and at the same time all of it could be wrong, but that’s just part of the fun.

We’ll start off with the division winners before moving on to the award winners. With these, we’re just going to list them out as it would take too long to explain our reasoning behind all 14 teams making the playoffs. 

AFC Division winners: Bengals, Colts, Bills, Chargers

AFC Wildcards: Steelers, Patriots, Chiefs 

NFC Division winners: Packers, Buccaneers, Cowboys, Rams

NFC Wildcards: Vikings, Saints, 49ers

Conference Championship games: Los Angeles Chargers to beat the Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams to beat the Green Bay Packers

Super Bowl prediction: Los Angeles Chargers over Los Angeles Rams

So that is how we think things will go on a team-by-team level, now