Each week, SneakerReporter will put out their power rankings of all 32 NFL teams featuring a one-sentence recap of their previous week.
With the 2019 season kicking off tonight (Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers, 8:20 PM EST on NBC) what better time to unveil where each team sits heading into a new year.
The fun begins below and check back each Thursday to track how far up or down your favorite team moves from week-to-week.
1. New England Patriots
Regardless of the loss of Rob Gronkowski, the defending champs remain as the best team in football until a game has officially been played.
2. Kansas City Chiefs
The offense only got faster, Patrick Mahomes only got better, and Andy Reid’s offense remains unsolvable; these guys might be even better this year.
3. New Orleans Saints
They should have been in the Super Bowl—and are who we have to thank for the new pass interference review/challenge system—and they return all the heavy hitters from a season ago, they will be near the top of these rankings for the foreseeable future.
4. Los Angeles Rams
Sean McVay has revolutionized this franchise in two short years and their best is yet to come, might get a chance to see them at full throttle this season (oh and they have Aaron FREAKING Donald).
5. Philadelphia Eagles
Nick Foles is gone but Carson Wentz is healthy (and paid) the offense line looks as good as ever, and the defense is primed to have a stellar season in a down NFC East.
6. Chicago Bears
The Monsters of the Midway came back in a big way a year ago thanks to the addition of the Khalil Mack, they hope for a repeat of last season’s success.
7. Cleveland Browns
No longer the running joke of the NFL, the Browns might have the most talent from top to bottom of any franchise in the league; count me as a believer in Cleveland 2.0.
8. Baltimore Ravens
If Lamar Jackson can complete a respectable percentage of his throws the Ravens could have an offense that rivals the dominance we saw from Kansas City last year.
9. Dallas Cowboys
Trios have been good to this franchise and their current iteration of Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, Amari Cooper is the best they have had since Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving.
10. Houston Texans
GM/Coach Bill O’Brien has been busy in the lead up to the start of the season but getting Deshaun Watson a high-caliber LT to protect his blindside should pay real and immediate dividends.
11. Green Bay Packers
The Sean McVay coaching tree is taking over the league, now picture a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers running the offense that Jared Goff took to the Super Bowl, the cheeseheads should be very happy with the switch made at head coach.
12. Los Angeles Chargers
Melvin Gordon is still holding out and Derwin James is out for at least three months but this team still has Phillip Rivers, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Hunter Henry, Joey Bosa, and Melvin Ingram.
13. Minnesota Vikings
The addition of Kirk Cousins didn’t lead to Minnesota taking the leap many expected but in year two (with a healthy Dalvin Cook) things are aligning for this team to do something special.
14. Pittsburgh Steelers
No Le’Veon Bell, no Antonio Brown and the Steelers remain in the top half of the league; James Conner and Juju Smith-Schuster are more than capable of filling the former All-Pros voids.
15. New York Jets
A candidate to go from worst to first, the Jets spent draft capital and actual capital to sure up this roster and Sam Darnold looks like a potential face of the franchise at QB.
16. Atlanta Falcons
Hopefully, they don’t get bitten as badly with the injury bug, we’re just two years removed from this team looking like the best offense in NFL history.
17. Seattle Seahawks
Adding Jadeveon Clowney was huge, Bobby Wagner is patrolling the middle and Russell Wilson just knows how to win they likely won’t be this low again all season.
18. Jacksonville Jaguars
Nick Foles is an enormous upgrade over Blake Bortles however, this team lost the benefit of the doubt last year and will need to prove they’re back to elite status before they move up in these rankings.
19. Carolina Panthers
If Cam Newton’s preseason foot scare proves to be a whole lot of nothing than Carolina could be on pace for a big year.
20. Indianapolis Colts
Andrew Luck is gone but this Colts roster is the most well-rounded they’ve had since drafting Luck.
21. Oakland Raiders
This team was BAD last year, adding Antonio Brown helps but there are still holes and question marks about them that only playing games will answer.
22. San Francisco 49ers
IS THIS THE YEAR WE FINALLY GET 16 GAMES OF JIMMY GAROPPOLO?!?!?!?
23. Buffalo Bills
They surprisingly let go of LeSean McCoy but their passing defense is stingy enough to keep them in every game how they perform in close contests will set the course of this season.
24. Tennessee Titans
Once perceived as New England South, Tennessee has been a disappointment and it doesn’t look like they’ll turn things around this year unless Marcus Mariota has a breakout campaign.
25. Denver Broncos
Vic Fangio is finally a head coach and gets to orchestrate a defense with Von Miller and Bradley Chubb that will be fun but the season as a whole will feature more downs than ups.
26. Arizona Cardinals
Kyler Murray and Kliff Kingsbury are trying to bring the Air Raid offense to the NFL, if anyone could pull it off it would be this tandem.
27. Cincinnati Bengals
Marvin Lewis was finally let go, A.J. Green and Andy Dalton are likely to follow him out of the door next.
28. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The marriage of Bruce Arians and Jameis Winston will either go very wrong or very right, either way, it will be highly entertaining.
29. Detroit Lions
The Bill Belichick coaching tree has not produced another Belichick yet and there’s a chance Matt Patricia’s tenure in Detroit doesn’t make it to the end of this season.
30. New York Giants
No matter what their record is or what they do on the field they will remain in the bottom three of these rankings until they relent and sit Eli Manning for Daniel Jones.
31. Miami Dolphins
They’re tanking.
32. Washington Redskins
They’re not tanking but they’re still worse than Miami, hopefully, Dwayne Haskins and Derrius Guice can bring hope for a brighter future.
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