Training camp is in session for all 32 teams and as we get a peek around the league, the crew at Sidelines all ranked every team in the league from 1-32 for our first power rankings of the season. Here is the correct order of NFL teams as things stand entering August.
1. Buffalo Bills
The preseason Super Bowl favorites are even favored in Week 1 on the road against the Super Bowl champion Rams.
2. Los Angeles Rams
No team has won back-to-back Super Bowls since the 2003-04 Patriots.
3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tom Brady and Julio Jones are a combined 78 years old.
4. Green Bay Packers
Their top wideout, Allen Lazard, has never had more than 513 receiving yards in a season.
5. Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs drafted seven defensive players including likely starters George Karlaftis and Trent McDuffie.
6. Los Angeles Chargers
For all the hoopla around Justin Herbert, he is 15-17 as a starter through two seasons.
7. Denver Broncos
The Broncos have not made the playoffs since winning the Super Bowl seven years ago.
8. Cincinnati Bengals
Only one team since 1993, the 2017-18 Patriots, has lost the Super Bowl and then made it back the following season.
9. Baltimore Ravens
Lamar Jackson is 37-12 in his career as a starter.
10. Dallas Cowboys
Every NFC team but three (Chicago, Detroit, Washington) has been to the Super Bowl more recently than the Cowboys.
11. San Francisco 49ers
Trey Lance carried the ball a total of 24 times in his two starts last season; a win over Houston, and a loss to the Cardinals.
12. Philadelphia Eagles
Jalen Hurts led all NFL QBs last season with 784 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns.
13. Las Vegas Raiders
Davante Adams referred to his new QB, Derek Carr, as a Hall of Famer. Carr’s career record as a starter? 57-70 with no postseason wins.
14. Indianapolis Colts
All four AFC West teams showed up on this list before we got to a team from the AFC South.
15. Arizona Cardinals
The Cardinals drafted just three of their projected offensive starters. As a comparison, their division mates, the Rams, drafted nine of their eleven starters.
16. New England Patriots
The Patriots have three coaches named Belichick on staff but no offensive or defensive coordinator.
17. Miami Dolphins
The Dolphins will be trying to win a playoff game for the first time since 2000, when Jay Fiedler led Miami past Peyton Manning and the Colts in overtime of a wild card game.
18. Minnesota Vikings
An optimistic sign for new Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell? Every Vikings coach since Les Steckel lasted one season in 1984 has taken to the playoffs at least once.
19. Pittsburgh Steelers
Is Mike Tomlin in danger of having a below .500 team for the first time in his 16 year tenure as coach?
20. Tennessee Titans
The Titans are one of just two teams, along with the Chiefs, to have had a winning record in six straight seasons.
21. New Orleans Saints
Jameis Winston pretty quietly had 14 TD passes and just 3 interceptions before suffering a season-ending injury last year.
22. Washington Commanders
Washington’s 2022 opponents had a .462 winning percentage in 2021, tied with Dallas for the easiest in the league.
23. Cleveland Browns
Myles Garrett tied T.J. Watt for the league-lead with 52 QB pressures last season.
24. Carolina Panthers
Baker Mayfield is 29-30 as a starter. Sam Darnold is 17-32 as a starter.
25. New York Giants
If you factor strength of schedule by Vegas win totals for the upcoming season, then the Giants have the easiest schedule in the NFL.
26. Detroit Lions
No NFL player born in the 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, or the 21st century has ever won a playoff game with the Lions.
27. Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jaguars ended their season last year by preventing Carson Wentz and the Colts from making the playoffs. Their first game this season? They’ll visit Carson Wentz and the Commanders.
28. New York Jets
The Jets have not made the playoffs since 2011, the league’s longest playoff drought.
29. Chicago Bears
No Bears QB has ever had a 4,000 yard passing season, something, just in their division, Aaron Rodgers has done ten times and Matthew Stafford did eight times as a Lion.
30. Atlanta Falcons
Marcus Mariota will have to shake the rust off after throwing just 30 passes in two seasons as a Raider.
31. Seattle Seahawks
The Seahawks are in a brutal division but do get to play five of the other teams in the bottom nine of our power rankings.
32. Houston Texans
Love Smith was 8-24 with the Bucs, then coached for five years at Illinois, where the team went 17-39.
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