The 2025 NFL offseason has provided us with major headlines, another fascinating round of musical chairs at the quarterback position, and plenty of intrigue for the upcoming season.
And thankfully, the “upcoming” part of that sentence is actually true at this point. The Hall of Fame Game is literally later this month, and training camps are looming across the league. Soon, teams will be back in the swing of practicing daily and football season will officially be back.
As we reflect on the offseason and look ahead to training camp, which teams have made the most substantial upgrades to their rosters? Which teams still have huge question marks? Who are the true contenders? We’re breaking it all down in our latest NFL Power Rankings.
2025 NFL Power Rankings: Ravens on top of the NFL entering training camp
32. Cleveland Browns
As we approach training camp here in the 2025 offseason, I’m not sure there’s a team that’s genuinely in a worse position than the Cleveland Browns. They’ve got their head coach and GM locked into extensions that were just signed last offseason. They’re in quarterback purgatory with an albatross of a contract to get through thanks to Deshaun Watson. They haven’t had prime NFL Draft real estate to replenish the roster over the past couple of years.
On top of that, the Browns have an offensive line in need of an overhaul, and one of their best defensive players (Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah) is dealing with an injury. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln? It just feels like this team is going take another few steps back before they take any steps forward. Anything above 3 wins this season should have Kevin Stefanski in Coach of the Year conversations.
31. Tennessee Titans
The Titans are simply caught right now in a weird situation for just about everybody. They are breaking in a #1 overall pick at the quarterback position with Cam Ward coming in, but he might only play one season for Brian Callahan. I’m not sold that Callahan is long for the head coaching gig in Tennessee with a new general manager in the mix.
Mike Borgonzi has taken over the team and has quickly put his stamp on the roster overall, but this feels like an audition year for Callahan, at best.
The Titans don’t have the top-end talent on the roster or the depth to be a threat in the AFC South, and I think this could be a long year for the team. The hope is that Ward shows a little something and they have some optimism heading into the 2026 offseason.
30. New York Jets
The New York Jets were almost unanimously considered as being one of the top 10 overall teams in the NFL heading into last season. It’s kind of wild how things turned out for them.
Aaron Rodgers and his crew are officially gone. The Jets fired GM Joe Douglas and head coach Robert Saleh in the middle of the season. They brought in two rookies for the GM and head coach roles this season with Darren Mougey in the GM chair and Aaron Glenn as the team’s new head coach.
The addition of Justin Fields in NFL free agency at quarterback will really be the determining factor for this team. Are the Jets going to have to pivot at quarterback in the middle of the year? Have we already seen the best of Justin Fields as a pro? Or are the stars going to align for this team? There’s talent here, but even with some big upside, there’s major downside.
29. New Orleans Saints
I want to go on record here in the offseason and just state that I don’t think the New Orleans Saints are going to be nearly as bad as people seem to think they will be. I think we have to be honest about the Saints being in arguably the worst quarterback situation of any team in the league, which is going to make it a potentially rough start for first-year head coach Kellen Moore.
The duo of Spencer Rattler and Tyler Shough isn’t striking fear into anybody, but the Saints have too good of a roster to bottom out the way that some people seem to think. Now, if this team suffers a bunch of injuries like they did last year, then all bets are off. But it’s hard to see a team with this much talent on both sides of the ball winning less than five games, even with their quarterback situation.
Maybe the Saints find a way to upgrade that position with a veteran before the start of the season…
28. Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jacksonville Jaguars finished last year as one of the five worst teams in the NFL, so we can’t really give them the benefit of the doubt just yet. This is a team that is going to have to earn its rise up our NFL Power Rankings week after week, because we constantly had them higher on the list in recent years than they deserved.
This team suffers from “potential syndrome” which is a serious condition for NFL teams. NFL teams with potential syndrome suffer from people saying good things about them, players being paid highly, and guys simply not getting the job done on the field. Trevor Lawrence is really the key for this Jaguars team being something going into the 2025 season.
If he plays well, this team could make noise in the AFC South. But we’re not counting any chickens before they hatch.
27. Carolina Panthers
We’re all excited to see the Carolina Panthers’ offense here in the 2025 season. We might be seeing this team a lot on the NFL Red Zone channel, but for both good and bad reasons.
The Panthers have a chance to score a lot of points this year if Bryce Young can continue the progress he showed after coming back from being benched last season, but the defense in Carolina is bad enough that they might give up more points than any other team in the league.
The addition of Tetairoa McMillan looms large for Carolina, as does the development of 2024 1st-rounder Xavier Legette. If the Panthers can get anyone on that defense to step up and become a core player, they might actually be one of the most fun teams to watch in 2025.
26. Las Vegas Raiders
With the Las Vegas Raiders, we have a team that has significantly raised its own floor with two moves, in particular. The hiring of head coach Pete Carroll might be one of the best coaching moves of the 2025 offseason, and the trade to acquire Geno Smith is a massive upgrade over the likes of Aidan O’Connell and Gardner Minshew.
The Raiders also landed the most dynamic offensive weapon in the 2025 NFL Draft class with the 6th overall pick where they took Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty. There is a lot to like about this Raiders team offensively.
Defensively, they are a mess. Other than Maxx Crosby, who can make it feel at times like the Raiders have 12 guys on the field, this is a defense full of castoffs and misfits. The Raiders lost some of their better in-house players this offseason and did not make appreciable upgrades on paper. Just like the Panthers, we could see the Raiders as one of the most improved offensive teams in the NFL this season and a complete joke defensively. They’ll need players to unexpectedly step up to exceed expectations.
25. Indianapolis Colts
If the Colts had any stability at the quarterback position whatsoever entering this offseason, they’d probably be everyone’s favorite darkhorse pick to make some noise in the AFC South.
Anthony Richardson showed a ton of promise as a rookie, and his injuries felt like an unfortunate halt in that progress. After his second NFL season, injury issues have simply further clouded the picture with this young player, who took a major step back this coming season. Richardson has outstanding physical gifts and talent, but can’t be trusted on a week-to-week basis.
With all of the talent at the skill positions for the Colts, it feels like a golden opportunity for Daniel Jones to become the next Sam Darnold. If he can do that, this Colts team may have some hope yet.
24. Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons have so much going for them offensively, and so many questions defensively. This will be the first year for Michael Penix Jr. as the unquestioned starter going into training camp, and based on some of what we saw from him last year, you can’t help but be excited about that.
The Falcons spent so many years investing heavily in their offense, however, which has cost them dearly on the defensive side of the ball. This team was an embarrassment in the pass rush department last year, and they knew it better than anyone. GM Terry Fontenot took Jalon Walker with his top pick in the 2025 NFL Draft and then took a major swing by trading a 2026 1st-rounder to get James Pearce to go along with him.
If those guys can step up quickly, the Falcons will be one of the top up-and-coming NFL teams in 2025.
23. Seattle Seahawks
Mike Macdonald is entering his second year as the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, and general manager Jon Schneider has put him in a really weird position.
The Seahawks team Macdonald inherited didn’t feel like a team on the cusp of blowing things up, but that’s kind of what they did in the 2025 offseason. They traded Geno Smith to the Raiders for a third-round pick and replaced him with free agent Sam Darnold. It’s impossible not to be impressed with Darnold’s resurgence in Minnesota last year, but is it sustainable with a new staff and worse weapons?
Seattle’s decision to trade DK Metcalf instead of paying him was odd, but replacing him with Cooper Kupp considering how similar his game is to that of Jaxon Smith-Njigba? It just felt like a totally random offseason for Seattle, a weird way of resetting, and it could lead to this team taking a step back unless the defense is dominant.
22. Arizona Cardinals
This is going to be a pivotal year for the Arizona Cardinals for a lot of reasons. The money spent on Kyler Murray and the investments made in the talent around him are going to be expected to all show some real signs of progress this coming season.
Murray is being paid like a player who can truly elevate a team to playoff contender status, and that’s going to be the expectation from the organization this year. The Cardinals took their lumps in year one of the Jonathan Gannon era, and they managed to win eight games last year. The arrow is pointing up. It needs to get to the next level this coming season.
The key for Arizona is going to be their defense, and maybe more specifically the pass rush. The Cardinals brought in Josh Sweat to reunite with Jonathan Gannon and hopefully bring some of that Philly magic.
21. New York Giants
In the offseason, you tend to overthink things a little bit, and I can’t help but wonder if many of us – myself included – have been overthinking the New York Giants a bit. The Giants have done more with less, and the additions they’ve made the past couple of years could end up getting this team back into the 7-9 win range.
The Giants getting Russell Wilson to raise the floor at QB feels like it’s being perceived as a joke or gimmick, but Wilson might have a tough time failing with the playmakers he’s got around him there.
The one area of this Giants roster that is undeniably good is the defensive front, and having the ability to dominate in the trenches on either side of the ball raises the floor for a team. The addition of Abdul Carter along with Brian Burns last year, and the duo of Kayvon Thibodeaux and Dexter Lawrence? The Giants have a little more cooking than anyone seems to realize.
20. Chicago Bears
It’s possible that the Chicago Bears are the most overrated team of the 2025 offseason. Just like last offseason, it seems like we’ve hit the restart button on the expectations for the Bears, and maybe more specifically, Caleb Williams.
There are plenty of reasons for optimism. You should be believing the best is yet to come for Williams under new head coach Ben Johnson. You should be excited about this team’s offensive weapons. You should feel like the Bears made substantial upgrades on the offensive line.
With all that in mind, this team still has questions in the pass rush department, and Williams took more sacks last year than Johnson is just going to be able to fix with the snap of a finger. I am approaching the Bears with cautious optimism.
19. New England Patriots
The New England Patriots have a chance to make a huge leap up the AFC standings this coming season. I don’t think any of us really appreciated what Mike Vrabel did for the Tennessee Titans while he was there, short of the toilet video during the 2020 NFL Draft.
But that was a long time ago.
The former NFL Coach of the Year had the Titans legitimately competing for an AFC title, and I felt he was wrongfully scapegoated with the Titans. The decision to trade AJ Brown has haunted that team ever since it was made.
But the Titans’ mistake can be New England’s gain. The former Patriot linebacker is now in the head coach’s chair and he’s got one of the most improved rosters – on paper – in the league.
18. Miami Dolphins
I’m giving the Miami Dolphins a decent placement on this list because of how top-heavy their roster is, but they are always seemingly a couple of injuries away from disaster.
Last year, it was easy to see the contingency plan for the Dolphins wasn’t much of a plan at all. This year, I don’t hate the thought of Zach Wilson, fresh of of a rehab year in Denver, taking over for Tua Tagovailoa in the event that he’s actually needed.
If the Dolphins are clicking offensively, they’ll be tough to outscore on a weekly basis, and they can exploit teams with their pass rushers. But this team has major questions regarding not only their ability to stay healthy, but the quality of the offensive line and the secondary going into the season.
17. San Francisco 49ers
As many familiar faces as departed San Francisco this offseason – and they were some big ones – one familiar face coming back into the building (Robert Saleh) has me feeling pretty optimistic about this team’s chances in 2025.
Sometimes when you put the pressure on your star players to perform and be stars instead of just being faces in a crowd, those guys are going to respond for you and step up in a big way. I think we’ll see that from the core players on this 49ers roster this year with Christian McCaffrey coming back from injury along with Brandon Aiyuk.
The return of Robert Saleh will be a huge determining factor in this team’s overall success. The 49ers know what Saleh brings to the table, and he maximizes the talent he’s given defensively. He’s got tons of young players to work with this coming season, including the majority of the team’s top picks in the 2025 NFL Draft.
16. Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals might have to find a way each week to score 41 points, because their opponents may very well be able to hang 40 on them at any given time.
The Bengals have made tremendous and wise investments in their core players offensively. They’ve not only given Joe Burrow an unprecedented contract as the team’s franchise player, but they brought back his entire cast of supporting characters.
Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, and Mike Gesicki all got paid this offseason. The unfortunate reality for the Bengals is that there were casualties of that generosity. Namely, Trey Hendrickson, the team’s best defensive player.
At this point, there’s still time to figure it out, but the Bengals need Hendrickson back and they need the defensive play-calling of Al Golden to be substantially better than what Lou Anarumo previously brought to the table.
15. Pittsburgh Steelers
We can finally talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers with Aaron Rodgers definitively in the fold for 2025, and not just the hypothetical chance that they could sign him. Rodgers might be in for his very last ride in the NFL as a member of the Steelers, who obviously believe that the future Hall of Famer is a substantial upgrade over Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, who each got pretty good money elsewhere.
Rodgers played some underrated football after the Jets were already drifting into anonymity last year, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility to think that this team could make some noise.
Not only did they get Rodgers, but they got him DK Metcalf and Jonnu Smith to throw the ball to. Defensively, Jalen Ramsey is now in the mix. It would literally be the best possible roster in 2021. The Steelers are all in, we’ll just have to see how it all plays out.
14. Dallas Cowboys
From 2021-23, the Cowboys won 36 regular season games. This is a team that contends when Dak Prescott is fully healthy, so what reason do we have to believe that this year is going to be any different?
I think if Prescott stays on the field, the Cowboys are going to be a minimum 10-win team, and they are way too easily written off based on how they looked last year when they struggled so badly with injuries.
The addition of George Pickens to pair up with CeeDee Lamb is absolutely fascinating to me, and I have a feeling with the volume of passes the Cowboys will throw this year, it’s going to work out well for them. The questions for this team are on the offensive line and in the defensive backfield.
They need their young offensive linemen to step up in a big way, and they need the secondary to stay healthy. How does this team respond after losing a longtime franchise staple off the edge in DeMarcus Lawrence?
13. Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos will enter the 2025 season as one of the more polarizing teams in the league. On the one hand, you have a team that vastly exceeded expectations last year with $90 million in dead cap, a roster that was considered the worst in the NFL, and a rookie quarterback nobody believed in.
It’s one thing to exceed expectations, but how will the Broncos respond to the pressure now of being perceived as a good team?
They won 10 games last year and ended a playoff drought that had been ongoing since Super Bowl 50. They seem to have found a franchise quarterback in Bo Nix. The additions Denver made this offseason has taken this roster to another level.
Again, it’s one thing to do it with no expectations and as an underdog, but how will this team respond to real pressure?
12. Los Angeles Chargers
You can’t help but wonder if what we saw last year from the Los Angeles Chargers was truly the ceiling of this team with Justin Herbert at the quarterback position.
Herbert is one of those guys that you just can’t quite figure out. There are some folks out there who believe beyond any shadow of doubt that Herbert is a top-5 quarterback in this league, but the results for the Chargers are not indicative of having a top-5 quarterback.
In fact, their results as a team are much more indicative of a quarterback that’s holding them back. Herbert was wildly efficient in the regular season last year and he completely wet the bed in the playoffs. Until this team starts proving something in the postseason, I think it’s more than fair to be critical of the way they play against good teams.
11. Houston Texans
The step back the Houston Texans took in the 2024 regular season was one of the most disappointing elements of the season. Houston was supposed to become a top challenger to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC, and they wound up really struggling throughout the course of the season.
Luckily for them, they play in arguably the worst division in all of football, and they were still able to host – and dominate – a playoff game. The Texans’ dominance over the Chargers in the Wild Card round of the playoffs was precisely the type of play we’d all expected from them all year, but we only saw a glimpse of it.
This offseason, they were back to the drawing board in some respects, making massive changes to the offensive line while also going young at receiver. CJ Stroud has to take another step forward for this team to truly be considered among the AFC’s elite.
10. Minnesota Vikings
I think I shuffled the Vikings on this ranking more times than any other team. The Vikings have the reigning NFL coach of the year in Kevin O’Connell. They have an outstanding roster overall with the best collection of offensive weapons in the league.
They have a good offensive line, a good defensive line, and a 1st-round pick under center.
There are just a couple of reasons I’m approaching this season with a slight bit of hesitance to push all-in on the Vikings. The first is obvious: JJ McCarthy. As talented and charismatic as McCarthy is, he’s an unknown and more than that, he’s coming off of a serious injury.
O’Connell is a great coach, not a master puppeteer. We need to actively see what McCarthy can do before putting a ton of confidence behind him.
The other thing is that this Vikings secondary could quickly become a liability for this team. They need players to step up in the worst way. Luckily, they can bring pass rush in waves with the outstanding front seven built by GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah. I think the Vikings are a minimum 10-win team.
9. Washington Commanders
Everyone is excited to see if the Washington Commanders can come out this season and repeat or even come close to the success we saw from them last season. Again, just like with the Denver Broncos, how is this team going to respond to the pressure of actual expectations?
It felt like they were playing with house money last year, and they wound up looking two or three years ahead of their rebuild schedule under new GM Adam Peters and head coach Dan Quinn.
Jayden Daniels got himself a legit left tackle this offseason with Laremy Tunsil coming in, and the front office doubled down on tackles, bringing in Oregon’s Josh Conerly. They brought in Deebo Samuel. The offense is not really a concern.
The defense, especially the pass rush? It might be the worst-looking group of pass rushers in the entire league. Dan Quinn is going to have to create some magic with that group, or it could be a disappointing year for the Commanders.
8. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Anytime you’re putting together a list of NFL Power Rankings, you’re intentionally trying to poke holes in every team. What makes this team better than that team, how could this team project better in this way. You start going down the list of things that are the most important and where teams are stronger than others, and the Buccaneers just kept clearing team after team on this list.
They might not be the most talked about contender in the NFC right now, but I’m not sure they aren’t the 2nd-best team in that conference behind the Eagles.
The Bucs have a good head coach who runs an outstanding defense. They have a good quarterback with elite weapons. They have a strong offensive and defensive line. They have playmakers in the secondary. They have to get their pass rush sorted out after resorting to calling Shaq Barrett out of retirement last year, but this is a team that should be really good in 2025, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up in the NFC Championship Game, at least.
7. Green Bay Packers
Every NFC team seems to have a lot going for it with one really fatal flaw.
The Packers have almost everything. They’ve got an outstanding coaching staff, continuity, they develop players from within, and they are deep. The Packers took a massive leap forward defensively last year in their first year under new coordinator Jeff Hafley, especially in the turnover department.
This team was outstanding at forcing other teams to make mistakes. But going into the 2025 season, the cornerback position is a huge question mark that could plague this team. The Packers did add Nate Hobbs from the Raiders in free agency, an underrated addition, but they appear to be banking way too much on younger or unknown guys to make a bigger impact than expected this season.
Their philosophy is to build from within, and that’s going to be put to test in the secondary for sure.
6. Detroit Lions
If this were a Madden franchise, the losses of both Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn might not loom too large for the Detroit Lions in the 2025 season.
Unfortunately for them, this is real life.
Not that those two guys were on the field making plays, but they were undoubtedly a key reason for this team’s wild success the past couple of years, and the loss of Johnson, in particular, is going to test Jared Goff and the offense.
The Lions desperately need that unit to carry them again this year with the defense banking on mostly guys coming back from injuries and playing as well as they did when we last saw them healthy. I still can’t wrap my brain around the Lions not really doing anything to upgrade off the edge with the severity of Aidan Hutchinson’s injury.
5. Los Angeles Rams
If The Last Dance were to have a sequel, the Los Angeles Rams might be the subject. The Rams are entering the 2025 season as though they’re going all in for Matthew Stafford, and understandably so.
Unlike the Seahawks moving on from DK Metcalf, the Rams actually made an upgrade at receiver when they moved on from a franchise legend in Cooper Kupp to go after Davante Adams. Adams gets to come back to California, where he played his college ball, and add a dynamic element to the Rams’ offense alongside Puka Nacua and a plethora of others.
The Rams used their top pick in 2025 on underrated Oregon tight end Terrance Ferguson, who should be a sleeper pickup for all you fantasy football players out there. This Rams team might have a better all-around roster right now than the Eagles in the NFC.
4. Buffalo Bills
Josh Allen won the MVP and played his heart out last season, and it still wasn’t enough for the Bills to get past the Kansas City Chiefs.
At some point, you have to wonder how long Allen can keep it up. He’s been playing at a video game-like level for quite some time, and at some point, you just feel like that pressure is going to get to him.
But we’ve seen Allen win as an efficient quarterback and we’ve seen him win when he’s playing more reckless and turning the ball over more frequently. He seems to be able to adapt to whatever.
The Bills have made some important upgrades to their defensive front this offseason, but we don’t see a couple of them (Larry Ogunjobi, Michael Hoecht) until later in the year. My guess is, we’ll be talking about how the rich are about to get richer at that point with the Bills likely just rolling to another stellar regular season record.
3. Kansas City Chiefs
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. The Chiefs’ dynasty has lived on long enough at this point that they are hated by the majority of NFL fans out there, and people are trying every way they possibly can to poke holes in what they’ve been able to accomplish since Patrick Mahomes took over in 2018 as the starter.
The Chiefs are just a great team that’s great in situational football, but it’s fair to critique them for the way they’ve played offensively over the last two seasons. They have ranked 15th in scoring each of the last two years, and that figure is mind-boggling when you consider how good their defense has been.
The Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes know they have to be better offensively this year, and I think we’ll see a bit of a resurgence from no. 15, even as much success as the Chiefs have had anyway.
2. Philadelphia Eagles
The reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles are the team to beat in the NFL, but they’re not the best team in the NFL.
Sorry, Eagles fans.
You’ll have to settle for No. 2 for the time being, but there’s plenty of reason to believe this team is still the best in the NFC. The Eagles have a core of players returning offensively that should have that unit humming once again, even with the departure of Kellen Moore. They have drafted well defensively in recent years and are going to be counting on more young players to step in for the departed.
Notably, we’re looking at pass rusher Jalyx Hunt to build off of what he did in the postseason, especially in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs. Hunt was a key player in the Eagles’ Super Bowl run, and the team is confident enough in his abilities that they let Josh Sweat walk in free agency.
If any team can weather the storm of offseason change, it’s this one. And if there are any weaknesses, you already know Howie Roseman will be aggressive in pursuing solutions.
1. Baltimore Ravens
The best team in the NFL, the most complete roster, the team that seemingly has everything is the Baltimore Ravens.
I cannot discern a weakness on this Ravens roster. Maybe Ravens fans who are more critical of the team, in general, will point something out, but it’s hard to be any degree of pessimistic about this team entering 2025.
The Ravens need only to get it done on the field. They have pretty much mastered the regular season at this point, but they keep failing at the final boss. Just like the Bills, the Ravens can’t get past a certain point in the postseason right now. Can they finally get it done this year?
It has to happen…right? If I were a betting man, I’d be taking the Ravens to win it all this coming season.