Streak Watch: Cincinnati Bengals Have Won 5 Straight (NFL)

Somebody is always rolling and somebody is always spiraling, that is what makes a league a league. Here is the current NFL streak board, longest runs first.

There are ten clubs carrying streaks of three games or longer at the moment, which tells you something about how streaky this stretch of the calendar has been.

The teams stacking wins

Cincinnati Bengals just keep stacking, five wins in a row, the best active streak going. At some point a run stops being a coincidence and starts being a statement, and they are somewhere past that point.

Buffalo Bills carry a 5-game winning run of their own.

Add San Francisco 49ers to the list too, 4 in a row.

Going the wrong way

The skid to watch belongs to Houston Texans, losers of five in a row. Runs like this always end eventually; the only question is how much damage gets done before they do.

It is not much prettier for Miami Dolphins, losers of 5 straight.

Indianapolis Colts round out the skid list at 4 in a row.

By the numbers

Every active streak of three or more, in one place:

The fine print

The longest run on the board sits at 5 games, and runs that size have a way of bending a whole week's storylines around them, every broadcast, every pregame note, every nervous manager quote.

None of these runs are forever. Enjoy them as stories, count them honestly, and remember the results table starts blank again tomorrow.