Been thinking about who might be on Hard Knocks next season. IF NFL keeps the same rules, anyone who made the playoffs in 2017 or 2016 are exempt, are are teams who have a new heard coach and teams that have been on hard knocks in the past 10 years.
By my calculations, that leaves 13 teams left at the moment:
Bills, Browns, Ravens, Colts, Titans, Chargers, Broncos, Redskins, Bears, Saints, Panthers, 49ers, Cardinals.
Some of these (Bills, Ravens, Titans, Chargers, Saints, Panthers) are in the playoff hunt, so some of them would end up being ineligible. Some of the others will probably fire their head coach and thus be ineligible.
My guess is the NFL ends up choosing the 49ers.