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Welcome to the bonus week of the 2025 r/NFL power rankings, the most biased-unbiased source for power rankings on the web. These power rankings started over 15 years ago from the pure dedication of a handful of guys in this community who love football, and although there are only two veteran rankers left from the inaugural season (49ers & Saints), we want to continue to keep that first season spirit alive for seasons to come. This season the ranker collective has been hard at work brainstorming how to improve quality, engagement, and transparency for the community we’re all part of. Thank you all for your continued support!

2025 Season Awards

  • Most Valuable Player: Matthew Stafford
  • OPOY: Jaxon Smith-Njigba
  • DPOY: Myles Garrett
  • Rookie of the year: Tetairoa McMillan
  • Comeback Player: Christian McCaffrey
  • Best Head Coach: Mike Vrabel
  • Worst Head Coach: Pete Carroll
  • Best Play of the Year: Jameis Winston trick play TD
  • Most Impactful Injury (QB Excluded): Micah Parsons
  • Most Disappointing Team: Kansas City Chiefs
  • Most Disappointing Player: Geno Smith
  • Social Media Team of the Year: LA Chargers

If you remember rankers posting season awards, you’ve been on this site since 2011. Let us know what you’d like to see next season!

Graphical Summary of Rankings

Week 0-18 Ranker Comparison

Each year we look back at our pre-season rankings and compare them to our week 18 rankings. This is useful, and fun, to reflect on things we may have missed, or terrible luck some teams have. In comparing week 0 to week 18, the following rankers had the least movement overall.

Top 10 Reps

Average score for all rankers - 273

Representative Total Score
Vikings 210
Falcons 238
Rams 240
Raiders* (Week 4-18) 240
Eagles 242
49ers 252
Dolphins 256
Seahawks 260
Saints 262
Texans 266

Perfectly Perfect Predictions:

Representative Perfect Predicted
49ers 4 Bills, Cowboys, Steelers, Titans
Broncos 3 Broncos, Falcons, Giants
Panthers 3 Chargers, Dolphins, Steelers
Dolphins 3 Bills, Steelers, Texans
Commanders 2 Giants, Titans
Giants 2 Steelers, Titans
Raiders* (Week 4-18) 2 Browns, Giants
Rams 2 Chargers, Titans
Texans 2 Rams, Titans
Vikings 2 49ers, Dolphins
Cowboys 1 Lions
Saints 1 Vikings

High Floor

(Fewest 20+ point swings)

Representative 20+ Swing Team Missed
Cardinals 1 Chiefs (26)
Falcons 1 Jaguars (20)
Jets 1 Patriots (22)
Patriots 1 Jaguars (22)
Vikings 1 Chiefs (23)
Jaguars* (Week 2-18) 0
Steelers* (Week 2-18) 1 Patriots (20)

Insider Information

(Reps more accurate with their team)

Representative Insider Information
Broncos Broncos - 0 (AVG 7.28)
Cowboys Cowboys - 3 (AVG 3.44)
Panthers Panthers - 1 (AVG 11.03)
Rams Rams - 3 (AVG 6)
Texans Texans - 3 (AVG 7.72)

Nostrankdamus

(Most accurate of the biggest surprises (15+))

Representative Nost-rank-damus
Raiders* (Week 4-18) Jaguars - 5 (AVG 17.94), Seahawks - 9 (AVG 17.63)
Texans Jaguars - 11 (AVG 17.94)
Browns Chiefs - 5 (21.41 AVG), Patriots - 4 (19.56 AVG), Commanders - 4 (17.41 AVG)
Falcons Patriots - 4 (19.56 AVG)
Bears Seahawks - 13 (AVG 17.63)
Chargers Seahawks - 13 (AVG 17.63)

“Freethinker” Breakdown

The collective has tracked outliers as a means of weekly discussion. Rankers communicate why a individual decision was made that goes against the grain. Outliers only count if they are a max outlier, and if they are more than 3 spots off the average.

Representative Total Outliers
Colts 3
Saints 5
Raiders 6
Ravens 12
Giants 14
Patriots 14
Bills 18
Chiefs 20
Steelers 20
Browns 21
Dolphins 21
Buccaneers 25
Rams 25
Packers 26
Bears 28
Titans 28
Jets 29
Texans 29
Cardinals 31
Lions 34
Bengals 37
Eagles 37
Seahawks 37
Cowboys 43
Commanders 45
49ers 46
Jaguars 47
Broncos 50
Panthers 50
Chargers 62
Falcons 83
Vikings 87

Most outliers:

  1. Week 5 - 70
  2. Week 0 - 61
  3. Week 2 - 60

Fewest outliers

  1. Week 15 - 41
  2. Week 13 - 44
  3. Week 17 - 48

Viewership Statistics

Views - Total: 5,572,000

  • Highest Week Viewed: Week 0 (561,000)

Comments - Total: 7,539

  • Most Comments: Week 0 (734)

Shares - Total: 5,580

  • Most Shares: Week 3 (688)