2. Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jaguars aren’t the top team in the AFC right now in terms of their overall record, but the more you look at their body of work, the more impressed you have to be. Obviously, there’s not a single team in the NFL right now that you can say is truly “perfect”. We’ve seen every team put up some stinkers this year, and this Jaguars team lost to the Bengals early in the season and struggled with the Raiders.
And heck, they struggled with Philip Rivers and the Chargers. But they ended up coming through with a clutch win.
Trevor Lawrence didn’t have his best game of the year throwing the ball, but he may have made his best throw of the season on a third-down play to Jakobi Meyers, fitting the ball into an impossible window. And Meyers made an incredible catch.
The Jaguars are playing their way toward potentially the top seed in the AFC if things go their way in Week 18. A signature win against the Broncos just last week puts them above Denver for the time being in our power rankings. They earned it.
1. Seattle Seahawks
Over the course of the 2025 season, I’m not sure there’s been a more consistently complementary team than the Seattle Seahawks. And ultimately, we’ll see how far that can take them. This Seahawks team is so tough when it comes to defending their offense, because they run the ball well and Sam Darnold has one of the biggest cheat codes in the game at his disposal in wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
That Seattle defense, however, is the reason this team might end up going deep into the postseason. As good as the offense is, the defense went on the road against a Panthers team fighting for a division title, and they held Bryce Young to 54 yards passing.
Not 154…54.
The Panthers had an abysmal 2.7 yards per play against the Seattle defense, which forced a couple of turnovers and pulled away easily in the second half. Again, this may be the most consistently complementary team in the NFL this season.