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Welcome to week 0 of the 2025 r/NFL Power Rankings. It’s the best time of year, where every team has improved. Going into the playoffs, no ranker had the Eagles at number 1 and nine rankers placed the Eagles over the Chiefs. There are seven rookie head coaches this year, (Cowboys, Jets, Saints, Bears, Patriots, Raiders, and Jaguars) with Ben Johnson ranking the highest at 16 and Kellen Moore ranking the lowest at 32. In the NFC, Dan Campbell was tasked with replacing two coordinators, and with Detroit ranked fourth they’re expected to not skip a beat. Other teams also have high expectations, like Green Bay at 6 after trading for Micah Parsons, and the 49ers at 8th overall after an injury plagued 6-11 season. Is Baltimore deserving of a ranking above Kansas City? Will the Steelers end up average? Will Kevin O’Connell scheme up an offense good enough to surprise the NFC North? Will Vrabel and Josh McDaniels get back to the Patriot Way? Discuss! 26/32 Reporting
| # | Team | Record | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Eagles | 0-0 | There was no Cinderella story. No Philly Special. No gutsy 4th down play calls. The team didn’t have to fight through injuries across key positions. No Big Dick Nick, no “do it for Peters”, no Dreams and Nightmares. None of that. The 2024 Eagles were a boring, beat the fuck-out-of-you football team. They peanut-punched opposing ball carriers, they run the ball down defenses’ throats, and when the lights were brightest, put together an ass-beating for the ages. Sure, they had some flashy moments: the backwards hurdles, the highlight catches, the interceptions. But this team was not an underdog. And they will hold that bully position to start the 2025 season. For those of you who haven’t paid close attention this offseason, the Eagles’ offense is returning 10 of their most consequential 11 starters from last year’s campaign. Their defense is without a couple higher leverage contributors, but they have a lot of young talent across the field. As is the case with all NFL teams, success rides on the quarterback. Jalen Hurts has shown he can do enough to bring the team wins, but, even during last season’s 10 game winning streak, “passing” (in the words of AJ Brown) was an issue. Hurts will enter his sixth consecutive season with a new week 1 play caller in his ear, and it will be up to him and Kevin Patullo to find their stride and elevate this offense to the efficiency numbers we know this talented offense is capable of. That probably won’t be something we have a full answer to in Week 1, but what Eagles fans will get to see on Thursday is every fan’s dream: hoisting a banner on national television in front of their inept division rival. It’s sweet being the bully. | |
| 2. | Ravens | 0-0 | Ravens @ Bills for a prime time showdown under the lights. Same scene, different script? | |
| 3. | Chiefs | 0-0 | ||
| 4. | Bills | 0-0 | The Bills gear up for the 2025 season looking to build once again on a promising season that eventually ended in despair. The 2025 Bills are strongly positioned to win the division for the 6th year in a row, rocking by far the best odds of any NFL team to win their division. The real question for the Bills will be whether they did enough to grab that coveted one seed in the AFC. Bills fans may be disappointed by the quiet offseason with marquee players such as Micah Parsons on the block but can rest assured that defense should be at least marginally improved due to a heavy emphasis on defense in the draft. Week 1 features the Ravens coming into town looking for revenge in a game that figures to have lasting playoff implications. In what could be a poetic season with a hardknock appearance and the send off of High Mark Stadium 2024 MVP Josh Allen is looking to bring the first Lombardi to orchard park. | |
| 5. | Lions | 0-0 | It’s been a busy offseason for the Lions. Yeah yeah yeah, y’all know about the personnel changes and coaching changes that have happened, sure, but did you know that Aidan Hutchinson now has a steel rod in his leg? What about Sam LaPorta’s marriage being personally blessed by the Pope? These are the things that make or break a season, people. Jamo just ran a back-to-school supplies giveaway for the Detroit youth and Goff donated his entire season signing bonus along with multiple sponsorship payments (amounting to over $20 million) to Detroit organizations that help with housing insecurity, food insecurity, underprivileged student support, and veteran support. The Lions are about the CITY. It’s an incredible time to be a fan of the Detroit Lions, on and off the field, and y’all better not be taking this for granted. I love this team and I’m so fucking pumped to watch them leave it all out there. Anyways, shoutout Theo “Gridiron” Spight: FORWARD DOWN THE FIEL– | |
| 6. | Packers | 0-0 | Green Bay hosted the NFL Draft! We drafted a wide receiver in the first round and looked great in camp!! WE TRADED FOR MICAH PARSONS!!! Our two biggest weaknesses from last season were addressed in the most exciting ways possible! I am so ready to live vicariously through these 53 men for the next six months! | |
| 7. | Commanders | 0-0 | "The big questions: Does Washington have its quarterback? Is Adam Peters the wizard who will make this franchise viable again? Will a stadium be approved to send this team home to the District?" - This ranker, from the Week 0 power rankings last year. One could call it prophetic, because we got all that and then some in the last year. 2024’s run put Washington back on the NFL’s map after a near 30 year exile in mediocrity - and importantly, it finally gave fans a highlight reel to watch beyond RG3’s 2012 run. To appear in the NFC Championship Game… with a rookie quarterback… a new coaching staff… and almost a completely new roster… what a magic season. But those are now just incredible memories. Now, a new season is here, and the record is 0-0 again. Having cleared the one black cloud that had been looming this offseason with Scary Terry’s hold-in, optimism is the only item on the menu for the Comman–🚨BWOOP BWOOP🚨–REGRESSION CANDIDATE ALERT. REGRESSION CANDIDATE ALERT. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT WASHINGTON IS AN OFFICIAL REGRESSION CANDIDATE. PLEASE REMAIN CALM AND CONTROL YOUR OPTIMISM. --🚨BWOOP BWOOP🚨–ders. Now, the offseason talking heads have been using this term “regression candidate”, which seems like low hanging fruit to appear really smart in about 5 months. The only way Washington could possibly outperform last year would be to … checks notes… ah yes, appear in the SUPER BOWL. Mmm, yes, a regression candidate indeed. This year’s Washington roster is objectively stronger, and another year with the same coaching staff should translate to further development of these players, leading to hopefully another deep playoff run. If nothing else, it’s lovely to start a season with realistic post-season expectations for once in the last three decades. And hey, at least Micah’s not in the division anymore. FOOTBALL IS BACK. | |
| 8. | Rams | 0-0 | After an injury-riddled 1-4 beginning to 2024, the Rams surged to the playoffs on the back of a young defense who began to form their identity. Unfortunately, that defensive identity included the inability to stop the run, which reared its ugly head in week 12 and the divisional round against the Eagles, where Saquon Barkley had 534 total yards in those two games. For 2025, the Rams have maintained their Super Bowl window, replacing Cooper Kupp with Davante Adams, bolstering aforementioned (lack of) run defense with Poona Ford, and retaining all three main coordinators for the first time in the McVay era. The biggest question marks are Stafford’s health and how much the defense will improve. If the Rams can navigate those and a projected difficult schedule successfully, they should have another shot to make a playoff run. | |
| 9. | Broncos | 0-0 | Broncos Country is a dramatic place. When we’re losing, the world is on fire. When we’re winning, we’re NFL royalty. When the rebuild is ahead of schedule and hype is peaking? We’re already starting religions around Bo Nix after a single season. In previous years I’d be writing ‘On The First Day, Bo Created The Earth’ or ‘Our Bo Is An Awesome Bo, He Reigns, From Denver Above.’ But I’m an old man now, a cynic, skeptical. I see my city standing on a rolling log, and I don’t know if we’re the splashy teenager or the calm and collected veteran. Indeed, these two archetypes are the forces at play. Sean Payton is an old school stablizing force. Bo Nix is a fiery young kid who wants to win so bad that he might flail around and lose his balance. I am the log. Please join me this season as I spin around with zero agency, moved only through the force of others and the laws of physics acting upon me, as I attempt to follow the competition of the professionals standing on my face and balls. | |
| 10. | Buccaneers | 0-0 | Boy, let me tell you something. Being an NFL PowerRanker is not an easy job to do. But in week 0? It’s hell! Not even the $20-per-word-in-your-blurb payment makes things easy for us. So apologies in advance if your team is ranked too high or too low. Looking at the teams, I think ranking teams from 1 to 31(+Saints… |
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