The NFL Players’ Association issues report cards for every NFL team, evaluating their facilities and management. In 2025, the Browns received a D+ in treatment of facilities, an F- in locker rooms, a D+ in training rooms, a league-lowest C- in training staff, a D in team travel, and a C+ in ownership.

Jimmy Haslam’s lack of investment in his team’s facilities and staff might have an impact on the on-field product, with the Browns recording 11 losing seasons and just two winning seasons during Haslam’s ownership. Instead of handing Deshaun Watson $250 million guaranteed, Haslam could have used that money to invest in the facilities, or anything else, because that signing will go down as one of the worst in NFL history. The Browns will likely finish the 2025 season with another top-10 draft pick, which is difficult to be optimistic about, considering how badly Haslam and the executives that he’s hired have drafted over the years.

Bengals’ owner Mike Brown, son of Paul Brown, founder of the Cleveland Browns, simply doesn’t invest much in his team. Owning a major sports team often isn’t profitable, but winning in the NFL does require a solid amount of cash, and the Bengals haven’t done much winning throughout the franchise’s history. The Bengals have one of the smallest scouting departments in the NFL, which severely limits the pool of prospects the team can draft from. Even if they find some talent through the draft, Mike Brown’s lack of spending causes issues when those players’ rookie contracts expire.

Brown is notoriously reluctant to pay his players, letting players such as Andrew Whitworth and Jesse Bates leave Cincinnati for better deals elsewhere. These moves and many more like them have caused their fair share of frustration among fans, and we can only imagine the outrage if Brown didn’t resign Tee Higgins and Trey Hendrickson during the 2025 offseason. Additionally, Brown’s lack of spending can be reflected in their NFLPA ratings, with the Bengals receiving an F- in treatment of families, an F in food/dining, a D+ in locker room, and a C in ownership.

If there’s an owner who has overseen the longest ongoing playoff drought in North American sports (14 years), it’s very difficult for them to avoid being on a list like this. Since Woody Johnson took over the reins of the Jets in 2000, the team has had some playoff seasons at first, but during the last 14 years, they have drafted countless busts, free agent duds, and disastrous head coach hires. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong for the Jets, and Woody Johnson has supervised it all.

Johnson cares about the on-field product, but he clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he consistently hires people who also don’t know what they’re doing. From using Madden ratings to influence free agent signings to hiring unqualified coaches like Adam Gase, the Jets win the Super Bowl when it comes to dysfunction in the NFL. Johnson hired GM Mike Tannenbaum, who, despite senior scouting director Terry Bradway believing that Russell Wilson was the steal of the 2012 draft, took linebacker Demario Davis instead. And then the Jets wonder why they can’t find a franchise quarterback.

David Tepper has been heavily involved with the Panthers’ football operations after buying the team in 2018, and maybe a little too involved with the team’s operations. The Panthers are yet to make the playoffs or have a winning season with Tepper at the helm, with leaks about Tepper causing a dysfunctional workplace being a major reason as to why.

In the 2023 draft, Tepper made an executive decision to use the No.1 overall pick on Bryce Young, despite the actual football executives in Carolina’s front office settling on C.J. Stroud as the team’s potential franchise quarterback. Stroud won Offensive Rookie of the Year Honors in Houston, while Young struggled mightily in a 2-15 season. However, Young’s 9-25 career QB record isn’t entirely his fault, as Tepper has been notoriously difficult to deal with by head coaches.

The transition of ownership from Al Davis to Mark Davis gave the Raiders a new home in Las Vegas and a new stadium, but the disappointing on-field results have stayed the same. The Raiders have had 10 losing seasons, two winning seasons, and still haven’t recorded their first playoff win since 2002 under Mark Davis’s ownership.

Davis has particularly failed with his crucial hires, as none of the Raiders’ last four GMs have lasted more than 3 years on the job. Davis questionably hired Jon Gruden as head coach, who traded the team’s franchise cornerstones and wasted the draft picks he received for them. Davis hired Josh McDaniels, who had failed previously as a head coach, and 73-year-old Pete Carroll, who has not won many games for the Raiders this season. The Raiders might have a .397 winning percentage under Mark Davis, and they may be currently one of the NFL’s worst teams, but at least they have the 4th best facilities and training staff in the NFL.

Shahid Khan bought the Jaguars in 2011 after failing to purchase the Los Angeles Rams. In hindsight, the Rams may have dodged a bullet there, because the Jags have had 3 winning seasons and 11 losing seasons under Khan’s ownership. Khan wants to field a winning team, and isn’t afraid to spend, both in player acquisitions, front office and analytics, and in the stadium and fan experience.

However, Khan does not hire the best individuals to run his organization. Khan has whiffed on plenty of head coaches – Mike Mularkey, Gus Bradley, and the worst NFL head coaching tenure of all time, Urban Meyer. Khan let Bradley stay for four seasons without recording a season above 5 wins, and let Meyer stay for 13 games after Meyer was involved in more scandals than the team’s number of wins. Shad Khan does many things that good owners do, but there are hardly any tangible results that have come from it.

Cal McNair has had a role in the Texans’ ownership since the team’s creation in 2002, but received a more substantial role in 2018 and took over the full ownership duties in 2024. McNair’s early years as the Texans’ owner were disastrous, posting an 11-38-1 record in his first three seasons.

The Texans did get a pair of playoff appearances after drafting quarterback C.J. Stroud and hiring DeMeco Ryans as head coach, but the Texans, and specifically GM Nick Caserio, who McNair hired, failed to build an offensive line around their quarterback that is better than dead last in the NFL. McNair is a rather new owner, and while his organization does have its fair share of issues, there is still time for him to prove that he can build a Super Bowl caliber team.