The NFL is down to its final four with the Denver Broncos, New England Patriots, Los Angeles Rams, and Seattle Seahawks battling it out for the chance to go to Super Bowl LX.
They say defense wins championships, but all four of these teams have great defenses. The question is, which team has the type of offense that's going to be able to punch a ticket to Santa Clara? In some ways, they all do, but there are unique qualities to each of these offensive units that have led them to the point they're at today.
Our newest NFL Power Rankings are going to take a closer look at each offense remaining in the playoffs and rank them worst to best going into Championship Weekend.
NFL Power Rankings: Rams have the best offense remaining in the playoffs
4. Denver Broncos
The sad reality for the Denver Broncos right now is that if the team is going to get to Super Bowl LX, they're going to have to do it without starting quarterback Bo Nix. Nix had three touchdown passes in the team's Divisional Round victory over the Buffalo Bills, and also led the team in rushing.
The offensive identity for the Denver Broncos this season has been Nix's ability to come through in clutch situations, but they could be set up well with Jarrett Stidham as the backup quarterback. The Bronocs initially signed Stidham with the vision of a future starting quarterback, and although Stidham has accepted his role as a top-tier backup, he showed during preseason games that he's a league above typical backup quarterbacks.
JK Dobbins recently teased a potential return to the field, and the Broncos officially opened his practice window, but what will we see from him after missing so much time due to injury?
The playmakers in Denver have consistently let Bo Nix down this season, even if they've also come up with some big receptions. This Broncos team has been among league leaders in drops for two straight seasons.
The biggest thing the Broncos' offense has going for it right now is Sean Payton pulling the strings, playing the game of chess as the play-caller. And make no mistake, that's a huge advantage for them. They also have the best offensive line left in the playoffs. But will they be able to overcome the loss of Nix?
3. Seattle Seahawks
I'm putting the Seattle Seahawks in the third slot for one reason: Turnovers.
The Seahawks had the 2nd-most giveaways offensively out of any team in the NFL this past season, but they were still one of the most explosive and high-scoring offenses despite that fact. They truly giveth and taketh as a group.
Sam Darnold got the playoff monkey off his back with the Seahawks dominating the 49ers in the Divisional Round, but he didn't really have to do much, did he? What's going to happen when he does have to do more?
He only had to throw 17 passes as the defense and running game did the rest against San Francisco, whose magic also just ran out at the worst possible time.
What have we seen from Seattle this whole season on offense? They have maybe the best playmaker in all of football: Wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba. If the Seahawks have a healthy Cooper Kupp to go along with him, they have a fantastic duo that can win at all levels of the field. The addition of Rashid Shaheed was yet another game changer for this unit and Seattle obviously doesn't lack playmakers in the passing game.
Zach Charbonnet's injury is another brutal blow in the injury department for teams still alive at this point in the year, but Kenneth Walker is more than capable of going on a heater with more of a workload.
Seattle isn't the best offense in the league situationally (16th on 3rd down, 21st in the red zone) but they still know how to light up the scoreboard.
2. New England Patriots
The New England Patriots have a couple of distinct advantages offensively entering the postseason. They finished the 2025 season 2nd in points scored, 3rd in total yards, 5th in passing, 6th in rushing, and 6th in the NFL in third-down efficiency.
In almost every way, the Patriots have been the most balanced team in the AFC this entire season, but they had one fatal flaw that nearly cost them a trip to the AFC Championship Game: Ball security.
Over the course of the regular season, the Patriots were one of the 10 best teams at taking care of the football with just 16 giveaways in 17 regular season games. But in playoff matchups against elite defenses (Chargers, Texans), they've already turned the ball over five times. Luckily for them, they were able to overcome three turnovers in the Divisional Round against the Texans with five takeaways defensively.
The elements obviously played a bit of a factor in that game, which featured eight turnovers in all, but the Patriots also entered the postseason as the team with the worst sack differential out of all teams. Meaning, Drake Maye has been willing to take hits and sacks again in year two.
With all of the negative out of the way, there's also a lot to like about the Patriots' offense. This is one of the best teams at attacking downfield this season and creating big plays. They have so many different weapons offensively who can hurt you, even without a ton of household names.
Maye does a great job spreading the ball around to different receivers, and every single one of their guys in the top five on the team in targets has a catch percentage of 67.4 percent or better.
Drake Maye was named 2nd-team All-Pro in just his second NFL season, so the Patriots have an MVP-caliber player under center. We'll see how they fare against a third-straight elite defense, this time on the road, against the Denver Broncos.
1. Los Angeles Rams
Let's keep this one plain and simple. The Los Angeles Rams have the best offense in the NFL, and there are two primary rasons for that: Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford.
Sean McVay is one of the best offensive minds in modern NFL history. He knows not only how to sequence plays, but he knows how to put players in the right positions to succeed at every juncture of a game. He does such a great job of managing situations and thinking 10 steps ahead.
Stafford could make up for bad play-calling if he needed to, but the marriage between he and McVay is just rock-solid. Situationally, those two guys feed off of each other, and Stafford is equally capable of operating the offense as a game manager as he is making a ridiculous throw on an out route from the opposite hash with the game on the line.
The Rams' offense is what you get when you combine genius-level scheme with elite personnel and talent.
They were #1 in the NFL in scoring this year, 1st in yards, 1st in passing, 6th in rushing yards per attempt, and 7th in red zone efficiency. The one downside for the Rams is that they ranked 17th in the league in third-down efficiency, but that might have been their only flaw.
That, and the occasional game where they turned it over at a higher rate.
But for the most part, it's going to take a truly dominant effort for any team to beat the Rams in the playoffs thanks to the many ways this offense can get the job done.