Hello Aspirant,

As you have got 174272 CRL rank, your category rank will be around 21000.

Although, Cutoff varies every year depending  on various factors. Keep in mind that your chances to grab a seat will vary on the following basis:

Number of seats available

Number of students applied for the same branch

Performance of the students

The category you belong to etc.

Go through this link to get detailed information about total number of seats NITs :

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nit-seat-matrix

Use the below link to get list of colleges that you can get based on your rank :

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=jee_cp

check out the previous year's cutoff for NITs:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff

You can also check out marks vs rank vs percentile from the below link:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile

Hope this information will help you.

Best Wishes!