The NFL has a brand new champion for the primary time in three years after the Philadelphia Eagles dismantled the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 40-22 in Tremendous Bowl LIX. Meaning these energy rankings will wrap up with a brand new No. 1 for the primary time shortly, however that’s not the one change in our rankings as we formally head into the offseason.
1. Philadelphia Eagles
Submit-regular season rating: 4
What’s new?: Their place in historical past
It’s time to start out determining the place this group ranks among the many all-time nice Tremendous Bowl champions. The Eagles received 16 of their final 17 video games and fully outclassed Kansas Metropolis on Sunday. They led the league in level differential (228) with the seventh-highest margin since 2000; they have been the one group to complete the season within the high six in each offensive and defensive whole anticipated factors added, they usually had extra factors (24) than the Chiefs had yards (23) within the first half of the Tremendous Bowl.
2. Kansas Metropolis Chiefs
Submit-regular season rating: 3
What’s new?: The Patrick Mahomes dialog
Sunday night time doesn’t dilute any of Mahomes’ outstanding accomplishments, however the Kansas Metropolis quarterback performed poorly sufficient that we’ve to hit pause on the Mahomes versus Tom Brady lifetime achievement comparisons for now. By three quarters towards the Eagles, Mahomes had 148 yards passing, one landing and two interceptions. He carried a flawed group to a 17-2 file heading into the Tremendous Bowl after which impulsively appeared exhausted by the hassle that took.
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3. Buffalo Payments
Submit-regular season rating: 2
What’s new?: Josh Allen’s trophy case
The Payments quarterback received his first league MVP trophy final week, maybe soothing the sting of a season that led to an AFC Championship Sport loss to the Chiefs. The 28-year-old has extra wins (76), whole touchdowns (262) and whole yards (30,595) than any participant in league historical past within the first seven years of his profession, and he gave us one of the best MVP congratulations video in historical past.
Josh’s response to his MVP video is the whole lot. 🥹#NFLHonors | #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/chp5ubW95n
— Buffalo Payments (@BuffaloBills) February 7, 2025
4. Detroit Lions
Submit-regular season rating: 1
What’s new?: The coordinators
Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are gone, to the Bears and the Jets, respectively. Of their place, Dan Campbell has employed John Morton to run the offense and promoted Kelvin Sheppard to run the protection. Detroit has received 27 video games within the final two common seasons mixed, however this transition shall be one of many hardest checks of Campbell’s tenure, which enters 12 months 5 subsequent season.
5. Baltimore Ravens
Submit-regular season rating: 6
What’s new?: Todd Monken’s paycheck
It’s been a fairly quiet month in Baltimore, however the offensive coordinator did get a contract extension after taking head teaching interviews with the Bears, Jaguars and Raiders. The Ravens led the NFL in yards per play (6.8) and anticipated factors added per play (.16) this season, and Monken would possibly get one other spherical of interviews subsequent 12 months if that momentum continues. Since 2018, he has been offensive coordinator for the Buccaneers, Browns, College of Georgia and the Ravens.
6. Washington Commanders
Submit-regular season rating: 7
What’s new?: Not the group identify
Proprietor Josh Harris stated Washington is “going with” its present nickname into the longer term. There was loads of hypothesis that Harris would make a change shortly after he purchased the group. Subsequent season shall be Washington’s fourth underneath the Commanders banner. The group spent two years because the Washington Soccer Group after dropping “Redskins” following the 2019 season.
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7. Los Angeles Rams
Submit-regular season rating: 9
What’s new?: Cooper Kupp’s exit plan
Kupp is on his approach out of Los Angeles, and he’s not terribly completely satisfied about it. The eight-year veteran introduced final week that the Rams have been attempting to commerce him and that he “didn’t agree” with the choice. It’s a cutthroat determination by L.A., however Kupp has a virtually $30 million salary-cap hit this 12 months and hasn’t performed greater than 12 video games in a season since his 2021 triple crown 12 months.
Will Sam Darnold, above, be again because the Vikings’ beginning quarterback, or will they flip to J.J. McCarthy? (Christian Petersen / Getty Photos)
8. Minnesota Vikings
Submit-regular season rating: 5
What’s new?: The quarterback speak
After sitting out his rookie season with a knee damage, J.J. McCarthy sounds able to supplant Sam Darnold if Minnesota is able to make the transfer. “All I can ask for is a good alternative,” McCarthy stated on “The Wealthy Eisen Present” final week. “That’s the one which I really feel like everyone’s given and it’s basic. When cash will get concerned, issues get sophisticated, and reps get skewed and there’s various things that come into the entire ‘political’ world that everybody talks about. However I actually simply must give attention to controlling what I can management.” Now the ball is within the Vikings’ courtroom.
9. Inexperienced Bay Packers
Submit-regular season rating: 8
What’s new?: Matt LaFleur’s dartboard artwork
Think about the Packers head coach simply hanging out in the future whereas Ben Johnson is being launched as the brand new Bears head coach when this remark from Johnson floods the web: I “sort of loved beating Matt LaFleur twice a 12 months.” Perhaps that may reignite this rivalry as a result of, as Packers followers have been fast to level out, Johnson’s new group has overwhelmed Inexperienced Bay solely twice within the final 9 seasons.
10. Houston Texans
Submit-regular season rating: 15
What’s new?: The offensive coordinator
Houston fired its former 49ers assistant, Bobby Slowik, as offensive coordinator and changed him with a former Rams assistant, Nick Caley. That is how offensive coordinator hiring within the NFL goes now — attempt a Niners man or attempt a Rams man. Caley wanted solely two years underneath Los Angeles head coach Sean McVay to get his coordinator job. He spent the earlier eight seasons in New England.
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11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Submit-regular season rating: 11
What’s new?: Liam Coen’s legacy within the workplace
The Buccaneers have a brand new offensive coordinator — Josh Grizzard — after shedding their final one in a messy breakup with Coen, who agreed to a deal to stay in Tampa earlier than circling again to take the Jacksonville head teaching job. Grizzard shall be Baker Mayfield’s third offensive coordinator in as a few years after the quarterback helped get each Coen and Dave Canales head teaching jobs.
12. Los Angeles Chargers
Submit-regular season rating: 10
What’s new?: The Justin Herbert debate
Simply when the Chargers quarterback was beginning to get extra believers on his bandwagon, he had a disastrous playoff efficiency towards the Texans, throwing 4 interceptions in a 32-12 loss. Herbert, who nonetheless doesn’t have a playoff victory, begins getting costly this 12 months. His cap hit is scheduled to be between $37 million and $71 million per season via the 2029 season.
13. Cincinnati Bengals
Submit-regular season rating: 12
What’s new?: The defensive coordinator
Lou Anarumo ran the protection in Cincinnati for six seasons, which looks like eternally for an NFL coordinator, however he was fired in January. He’ll get replaced by the person who was his linebackers coach from 2020 to 2021 — Al Golden. It’s Golden’s first coordinator job within the NFL. He comes most just lately from Notre Dame, the place he helped the Irish attain the CFP championship recreation this 12 months.
14. Denver Broncos
Submit-regular season rating: 13
What’s new?: Sean Payton’s want record
The Broncos head coach already has instructed everybody this offseason that he’s on the lookout for a “joker” for subsequent 12 months’s group. In Payton’s offense, that’s a operating again or tight finish who’s dynamic sufficient within the passing recreation to create matchup issues. May Penn State tight finish Tyler Warren be the reply? Will he be accessible when the Broncos choose at No. 20?
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15. San Francisco 49ers
Submit-regular season rating: 20
What’s new?: Christian McCaffrey’s well being
The operating again’s father, former NFL broad receiver Ed McCaffrey, instructed Entrance Workplace Sports activities that his son shall be “totally wholesome” by the top of the week and could have a full offseason of coaching. McCaffrey performed solely 4 video games in 2024 due to Achilles and calf accidents that at one level forged doubt on his means to return to high kind. That’s nonetheless to be decided, however the information for now could be good.
16. Pittsburgh Steelers
Submit-regular season rating: 14
What’s new?: Nothing, ever
Mike Tomlin remains to be the top coach. Teryl Austin remains to be the defensive coordinator. Arthur Smith remains to be the offensive coordinator. There in all probability shall be some type of change at quarterback after proprietor Artwork Rooney II stated it’s “unlikely” the group would re-sign each Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, however that hasn’t occurred but. Perhaps one of the best improvement for Pittsburgh within the final month is Myles Garrett saying he needs out of Cleveland.
17. Seattle Seahawks
Submit-regular season rating: 16
What’s new?: The emphasis on the run recreation
Coach Mike Macdonald removed former offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb partly as a result of he needed to run the ball extra. Hiring Klint Kubiak to interchange Grubb ought to assist. Alvin Kamara was ninth within the league in carries per recreation (16.3) with Kubiak calling performs in New Orleans final 12 months.
Brian Schottenheimer was an out-of-left-field option to turn out to be a head coach this 12 months, however he’s now in control of the Dallas Cowboys. (Nick Cammett / Getty Photos)
18. Dallas Cowboys
Submit-regular season rating: 17
What’s new?: The pinnacle coach
Brian Schottenheimer obtained his first head teaching job of any variety when Jerry Jones tabbed him to interchange Mike McCarthy. It might have been essentially the most surprising information of the NFL offseason if it hadn’t been Jones making the choice. Schottenheimer joined Dallas as an offensive assistant in 2022 and shall be getting into his fourth season with the Cowboys. That’s longer than he’s spent on any job besides his six-year stint as Jets offensive coordinator from 2006-2011. He’s made 5 teaching stops since then.
19. Atlanta Falcons
Submit-regular season rating: 21
What’s new?: Kirk Cousins drama
The veteran quarterback has had a bumpy highway in Atlanta. First, his introductory information convention resulted in a tampering investigation that price the group a fifth-round choose. Then, the Falcons blindsided him by drafting Michael Penix Jr. eighth. Then, the Falcons benched Cousins in favor of Penix with three video games left within the common season. Lastly, final week Cousins stated he was hampered by shoulder and elbow accidents via the second half of the season after sustaining all through the season that he was wholesome. If this finally ends up being Cousins’ solely 12 months in Atlanta, it can go down as an eventful one.
20. Miami Dolphins
Submit-regular season rating: 19
What’s new?: Tyreek Hill’s location, possibly
The broad receiver shall be heading into his tenth season within the fall, and he is perhaps doing it someplace apart from Miami. He steered as a lot when the season ended, though he walked that again final week on the “Up & Adams Present” whereas apologizing to Tua Tagovailoa and his teammates. Hill is underneath contract with the Dolphins via 2027 (and his 2026 cap hit is scheduled to be $51.9 million!), however his mercurial nature could also be carrying skinny.
21. Arizona Cardinals
Submit-regular season rating: 18
What’s new?: Not rather a lot
With only one profitable season since 2015, the Cardinals type of really feel like they’re sliding into obscurity (as a lot as any group can within the culture-eating monster that’s the NFL). No main modifications are anticipated this offseason with head coach Jonathan Gannon and quarterback Kyler Murray entrenched at the very least for now, so it seems to be like extra of the identical for the Cardinals.
Is Pete Carroll the person to cease the revolving door in Las Vegas? (Ethan Miller / Getty Photos)
22. Las Vegas Raiders
Submit-regular season rating: 24
What’s new?: Pete Carroll’s within the constructing
Proprietor Mark Davis went from possibly the least skilled coach he may have employed (Antonio Pierce) to possibly essentially the most skilled. Carroll, 73, has been a head coach for 27 of the final 29 seasons both within the NFL or school. Counting interim hires, Carroll would be the eighth Raiders head coach because the 2014 season.
23. Indianapolis Colts
Submit-regular season rating: 22
What’s new?: The defensive coordinator
After spending six years in Cincinnati, Anarumo was snapped up by the Colts shortly after the Bengals fired him. It was time for a change in Indy. The Colts have been thirtieth within the league in factors allowed (24.9) in three seasons underneath Gus Bradley. Perhaps Anarumo can repair quarterback Anthony Richardson after he will get the protection straightened out.
24. Chicago Bears
Submit-regular season rating: 27
What’s new?: The teaching lineup within the division
If new Bears head coach Ben Johnson is nearly as good as everybody expects him to be (though let’s be trustworthy, it’s all the time a crapshoot), then the NFC North would be the new cradle of coaches. Campbell, Kevin O’Connell and LaFleur have already proved their chops, which is the rationale it’s a bit stunning that is the job Johnson determined to take.
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25. New Orleans Saints
Submit-regular season rating: 25
What’s new?: The pinnacle coach (any day now)
Everybody expects Eagles offensive coordinator and new Tremendous Bowl champion Kellen Moore to be named New Orleans’ subsequent head coach. In truth, his Wikipedia web page indicated Monday morning that he already had the job although the Saints hadn’t introduced it but (though that was eliminated by the early night). The previous Boise State quarterback, 36, has been in teaching solely since 2018, and he and the Cowboys parted methods simply 25 months in the past, so it is a danger for New Orleans, which is the final group to fill its head teaching emptiness this offseason.
26. New York Jets
Submit-regular season rating: 26
What’s new?: The Aaron who’s in cost
Aaron Glenn, who was employed as head coach on Jan. 22, hasn’t acted in his earlier stops like a coach who’s going to be keen to let the quarterback run the present, and it seems to be like meaning the top of the road for Aaron Rodgers. The Jets choose seventh within the upcoming draft, which is perhaps excessive sufficient to get Shedeur Sanders or Cam Ward if Glenn needs to go along with a rookie quarterback.
27. Carolina Panthers
Submit-regular season rating: 23
What’s new?: The followers’ emotions in regards to the Corridor of Fame
Carolina followers, and just about everybody else, believed former Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly ought to have been a first-ballot Corridor of Famer, however he didn’t make the reduce. The seven-time Professional Bowler and 2013 defensive participant of the 12 months shall be an computerized finalist subsequent 12 months due to his end on this 12 months’s voting. This 12 months’s four-person induction class was the smallest in 20 years.
28. New England Patriots
Submit-regular season rating: 30
What’s new?: Mike Vrabel’s again
And the horseplay goes to cease, apparently. “We’re going to take away entitlement from our soccer group,” the previous Patriots linebacker stated in his introductory information convention. Pairing Vrabel with second-year quarterback Drake Maye has renewed the spirit of New England followers, who’ve seen their group common 6.6 wins per season during the last 5 years.
29. Jacksonville Jaguars
Submit-regular season rating: 28
What’s new?: The entrance workplace, lastly
Proprietor Shad Khan tried to carry on to normal supervisor Trent Baalke however couldn’t discover a head teaching candidate keen to work for him underneath these circumstances. Now Jacksonville has a head coach (Liam Coen), however it’s nonetheless trying to exchange Baalke. Change might be good for the Jaguars, who’ve the worst profitable share within the league (30.2 p.c) since Khan purchased the group in 2012.
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30. New York Giants
Submit-regular season rating: 29
What’s new?: The quarterback, quickly
The Giants don’t have a quarterback underneath contract for the 2025 season so there’s little doubt they’ll be getting a brand new one. The query is: From the place? New York picks third on this 12 months’s draft behind Tennessee and Cleveland, each of which may take a quarterback. If the Giants can’t get, or don’t need, one of many high two school choices (Sanders and Ward), they might think about veteran choices like Cousins, Darnold, Fields and Jameis Winston.
31. Cleveland Browns
Submit-regular season rating: 31
What’s new?: Probably the whole lot
Because the finish of the common season, we’ve realized that quarterback Deshaun Watson suffered a second tear of his injured Achilles and defensive finish Myles Garrett needs a commerce. The Watson damage may give the Browns an opportunity to get out of his onerous contract extra simply, they usually may commerce Garrett to recoup among the draft capital they misplaced whereas buying Watson. If anyone may use a reset, it’s the Browns.
32. Tennessee Titans
Submit-regular season rating: 32
What’s new?: The overall supervisor
Tennessee raided the Chiefs’ entrance workplace to search out their new normal supervisor, which looks like an affordable technique. They employed former Kansas Metropolis assistant normal supervisor Mike Borgonzi, who had been with the Chiefs since 2009. Now, he’s going from Patrick Mahomes to Who Is aware of What at quarterback. We’ll see how that works out.
(High photograph of A.J. Brown and Mekhi Becton: Jamie Squire / Getty Photos)