NFL Power Rankings

2026 season · through 1 games

Built on point differential, not record. A 9-8 team that won six one-score games is not the team its record says, and margin predicts the rest of the season substantially better. With only 1 game played, these are still weighted toward last season — a rating built on this year alone would call all 32 teams exactly average.

#	Team	Rating	Rec	PDPt diff
1	Seattle Seahawks	1755	1-0	+3
2	New England Patriots	1709	0-1	-3
3	Jacksonville Jaguars	1703	0-0	0
4	Buffalo Bills	1671	0-0	0
5	Houston Texans	1660	0-0	0
6	Los Angeles Rams	1659	0-1	-20
7	San Francisco 49ers	1647	1-0	+20
8	Denver Broncos	1632	0-0	0
9	Detroit Lions	1600	0-0	0
10	Indianapolis Colts	1579	0-0	0
11	Philadelphia Eagles	1579	0-0	0
12	Kansas City Chiefs	1550	0-0	0
13	Green Bay Packers	1546	0-0	0
14	Los Angeles Chargers	1541	0-0	0
15	Baltimore Ravens	1538	0-0	0
16	Chicago Bears	1538	0-0	0
17	Minnesota Vikings	1516	0-0	0
18	Pittsburgh Steelers	1515	0-0	0
19	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	1454	0-0	0
20	Dallas Cowboys	1441	0-0	0
21	Atlanta Falcons	1429	0-0	0
22	New York Giants	1415	0-0	0
23	Carolina Panthers	1399	0-0	0
24	Miami Dolphins	1387	0-0	0
25	New Orleans Saints	1387	0-0	0
26	Cincinnati Bengals	1385	0-0	0
27	Washington Commanders	1360	0-0	0
28	Cleveland Browns	1353	0-0	0
29	Arizona Cardinals	1304	0-0	0
30	Las Vegas Raiders	1219	0-0	0
31	Tennessee Titans	1215	0-0	0
32	New York Jets	1201	0-0	0

Records and scoring from ESPN. These are the same ratings that choose the NFL game of the day — weighted for total quality, the stakes of a division matchup, and how close the two sides are, because a mismatch is a worse watch than a coin flip.