Another week of exciting NFL football has come and gone, and what a week it was. The Week 5 slate got started with one of the most thrilling games of the season between the Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Falcons won a nail-biter in thrilling fashion. But the excitement didn't stop there, and the Falcons aren't the only big mover in our latest NFL Power Rankings ahead of Week 6.
The Washington Commanders continue to impress, and they might legitimately be a top-three team in the NFL right now. The Baltimore Ravens are absolutely soaring after their third-straight win, another absolute thriller against the Cincinnati Bengals.
We’ve got a lot to get into in our Week 6 NFL Power Rankings, taking a look at the biggest risers and fallers around the NFL.
2024 NFL Power Rankings, Week 6: Falcons rising, Bengals falling
32. New England Patriots
You really couldn’t have asked for much of a worse week if you’re the New England Patriots. The Patriots not only lost on Sunday afternoon, but they lost to the Miami Dolphins who are down to Snoop Huntley at the quarterback position. There are no easy games in the NFL, obviously, but that was about as close to a “gimme” as you’re going to get.
Not because Huntley is a bad player, but the Patriots are rolling with the guy they’ve chosen from before the start of the season as their QB1 and the Dolphins were rolling with a guy they had to sign because their other quarterbacks went down with injuries.
It was ugly for the Patriots to lose this game the way they did, especially after showing some semblance of signs of life offensively. If the Patriots can’t win these types of low-scoring games going up against a team’s third option at QB, it’s going to be a long year.
31. Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers had a little jolt of life when Andy Dalton took over the starting job from former #1 overall pick Bryce Young, but this is clearly one of the worst teams in the NFL right now. The Panthers allowed DJ Moore to have himself a game against his old team, while absolutely nothing was working for Carolina’s offense.
They had just 14 total first downs compared to 24 first downs for the Bears in this game and struggles continued on 3rd down as the Panthers were only able to convert on three of their 12 opportunities. And you’re not going to win many games in the NFL when you lose the turnover battle 0-3.
The Panthers sort of “are who we thought they were” at this point, right? This team is primed to be a seller at the 2024 NFL trade deadline.
30. Cleveland Browns
There’s a reason why Kevin Stefanski is having to defend against the idea of changing quarterbacks after just about every game. The Cleveland Browns feel like a sinking ship right now and Deshaun Watson is the reason there’s a huge hole letting water in. The guy was sacked another seven times against the Washington Commanders.
This is a Browns team that won 11 games last season and had Joe Flacco at the quarterback position for their big playoff run. We’ve seen how strong this team can be with competent quarterback play, but Watson just isn’t giving it to them.
At some point this year, the Browns are probably going to have to throw in the towel on Watson and make a move to Jameis Winston, even if it’s just to see what kind of spark he can give them. Otherwise, are we going to see this team selling at the 2024 NFL trade deadline? There are already rumors of the Browns moving on from Amari Cooper and more names could be on the move if this team keeps losing.
29. Jacksonville Jaguars
Well, the Jacksonville Jaguars lived to fight another day. They got on the board and they looked really good doing it. The Jaguars rocked their throwback uniforms on Sunday against the Colts and they somehow prevented an all-timer of a comeback from Joe Flacco and the boys.
The Jaguars seemingly had the game in hand after a late, long run by Tank Bigsby, but that Jacksonville defense almost gave the game away. This was a desperately needed win for a team that has been facing some significant questions, especially when it comes to the performance of head coach Doug Pederson. Pederson was facing the music last week about his job security after starting 0-4, and the Jaguars have been ice cold dating back to a little past midway through last season.
As desperately needed as this game was, the Jaguars really need to start stacking. They have too much invested in Trevor Lawrence and other key players on this team to be irrelevant in October.
28. Miami Dolphins
Well, the Miami Dolphins paid the big bucks to head coach Mike McDaniel because they believe in the culture he’s built for this team. Not just because this team has a great offensive operation when Tua Tagovailoa is healthy. And as a highly-paid head coach with great job security, you expect to see games like we saw on Sunday where the Dolphins went into New England and gutted out a really tough win.
The Dolphins are down multiple quarterbacks. They are down defensive stars. So many issues have plagued this Dolphins team so far in 2024 in terms of injuries and they got a much-needed second win of the season. There’s really no question that this Dolphins team is a lot better when Tua Tagovailoa is able to be out there, but this team expects to be relevant this season and they’re having to stay relevant without key players.
Even though the Patriots aren’t exactly Super Bowl contenders, you’ve got to tip your cap to the gameplan of Mike McDaniel on Sunday.
27. Tennessee Titans
There’s nothing overly positive or negative that we can say about the Tennessee Titans after Week 5, but they definitely didn’t lose.
The Titans had a bye in Week 5 and will face off against the Indianapolis Colts in a divisional matchup in Week 6. That Colts team may not be the greatest right now, either, but they can put up points in bunches. The Titans are going to have to be prepared not only to put up points offensively, but to figure out how to slow down Joe Flacco. Flacco had three touchdowns and nearly 360 yards in a loss to the Jaguars on Sunday afternoon.
The Titans are coming off of a win against the Miami Dolphins last week and obviously that win feels good to get them out of the winless category, but this team is trending toward being a seller at the NFL trade deadline and they need to come out looking sharp against the Colts to have any sort of chance at a Wild Card spot this season.
26. Indianapolis Colts
Speaking of Joe Flacco…seriously, what the heck?
Flacco looked like he had found the fountain of youth when he joined the Colts in the middle of the 2023 season. The Colts were obviously hoping that Flacco could just hold a clipboard this year, but another injury to Anthony Richardson has forced him into action.
And Flacco has been ready.
Even though the Colts ended up losing against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, Flacco was sensational with 359 yards passing and three touchdowns with no interceptions. He has formed an impressive connection with Alec Pierce who had 134 yards and a touchdown on just three receptions.
The Colts can hang with most teams in terms of scoring, but it’s tough to gauge this team week to week. They could look like a top-12 team one week and a bottom-five team the next.
25. Las Vegas Raiders
The Las Vegas Raiders got off to a really good-looking 10-0 start against the Denver Broncos in Week 5, but the Broncos scored 34 unanswered points before the Raiders seemingly knew what had happened to them. It wasn’t until the Raiders actually replaced starting quarterback Gardner Minshew with Aidan O’Connell that they actually got back on the scoreboard late in the fourth quarter, but this was one of the most shocking blowouts of the week.
The Raiders are obviously in a bit of disarray at the moment, though they entered the week with a 2-2 record and a win against the Ravens (on the road, at that) under their belt. It doesn’t look like things are going to get better for the Raiders anytime soon with Davante Adams obviously injured and asking for a trade, likely not to dress for this team again.
It’s going to be interesting to see what other fallout comes of Adams asking for (and presumably getting) a trade in the near future.
24. Los Angeles Rams
It’s really tough to be hard on the Los Angeles Rams, even though we just have to judge teams based on what they are at this point. The Rams are 1-4 to start this season but they’ve been in some really close games against good teams and they are doing it without some of their best players on the field.
And when I say some of the best players on the field, I mean like legitimately, there are few NFL teams as snake-bitten in the injury department right now as the Los Angeles Rams. Jordan Whittington was this team’s leading receiver in Week 5.
This team is still obviously well-coached and they have pieces, but they have to stay healthy. I don’t know that we’re going to see Les Snead (GM of the Rams) decide to blow this thing up, by any means, but you can’t help but wonder if the Rams would put one eye on the future at some point this season and what that might end up looking like.
25. New York Giants
You have to give credit where it’s due, and I didn’t think the Giants had a single chance to go into Seattle and get themselves a win in Week 5. I was about as positive that the Giants were going to lose as anything this week, especially without Malik Nabers in the lineup.
Everything was going against them. But I’m going to hold my “L” from this week and give some kudos to the Giants in this one. The Giants got a huge performance from former Purdue/Iowa offensive weapon Tyrone Tracy, one of the exciting rookies from their stellar 2024 draft class.
Daniel Jones played mistake-free football, and the Giants absolutely shut down Seattle’s stellar running back duo of Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet. Geno Smith was forced to throw the ball 40 times in this game, and New York continued to expose some of the defensive issues that have plagued the Seattle Seahawks in recent weeks.
So where do the Giants go from here? They’ve won two of their last three games and have a home game against a ticked off Bengals team looming.
22. Los Angeles Chargers
The Los Angeles Chargers didn’t lose in Week 5, which is promising. They also didn’t play.
How many times are we going to use that joke this season? Stay tuned…
The Chargers dropped two straight games before their bye week, and usually early bye weeks are not preferred but it actually felt like the Chargers kind of needed one. Whether we’re talking about the health of some of their key players or just stopping some of the bleeding from their last two games, the bye came at a decent time for Jim Harbaugh and his crew.
We’ll see how they come out of the bye week facing off against a red-hot Denver Broncos team on the road as the Broncos jumped to 3-2 and have one of the best defenses in the league. With all of the changes they made in the offseason, we’ve seen the Chargers look exactly like a team with a brand-new head coach. There have been moments where this team has looked totally galvanized under Harbaugh and there have been moments where they look like they are a handful of pieces away from being relevant.
21. Arizona Cardinals
I was putting these NFL Power Rankings together during the afternoon slate of games, and as I’m watching these games unfold, I am being forced to move the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers around. The Cardinals checked in at no. 28 on last week’s power rankings, which was pretty low for a team that I’ve been high on throughout the course of the offseason and early into this season.
We have seen Jonathan Gannon’s teams come through with some nice performances against teams that were clearly better than them on paper, and this one was no different. This game was the biggest spread of the week (49ers favored by 7.5 points at home) and the Cardinals came in and knocked them off.
It’s the beauty of the NFL. Any team, any Sunday, any week, no matter what. It’s not like the Cardinals are terrible, but the 49ers are just a shockingly different team than I think anyone expected. Even when you factor in the injuries. Let’s see if the Cardinals can build on this one.
20. Cincinnati Bengals
The Cincinnati Bengals aren’t going to end up losing 10 games this season are they? Maybe the Bengals are going to be this year’s version of what we saw from the Buffalo Bills last year. The Bills struggled to 6-6 at one point last year and then just went on an absolute tear in the back half of the season. The Bengals are going to need to go on a run just to get to 6-6, though.
The Bengals are probably my highest-ranked 1-4 team in the history of NFL Power Rankings. They’ve lost some close games to some of the NFL’s better teams, but the Bengals also lost the season-opener against the Patriots and just haven’t looked like themselves this year.
Defensively, they obviously still struggled in the home loss to the Baltimore Ravens, but we’ve been seeing some signs of life from that Bengals offense. They scored a whopping 38 points but what does this team have to do to finish games at home? They are 0-3 at home through the first five weeks of the 2024 season. Not good.
19. New York Jets
What a shame for the New York Jets to fly all the way to London only to get handed a loss by the white-hot Minnesota Vikings. The Jets struggled in Week 4 against the Denver Broncos despite the offense looking so good against the Patriots the week before.
Well, they’ve scored just 26 points since that as two teams that blitz more than any in the NFL (Broncos, Vikings) have kept Aaron Rodgers and his boys at bay.
Davante Adams, you’re our only hope…
The Jets have to figure this thing out pretty quick, although they have been pretty fortunate with the Buffalo Bills also losing two straight games to help them keep pace in the AFC East. Speaking of the Bills, the Jets will have an extra day of rest to prep for the Bills coming to town for a Monday night showdown.
Is Davante Adams going to be playing for one of these two teams in the coming weeks?
18. New Orleans Saints
Saints play Monday night vs. Chiefs
Well, I don’t know that anyone is really expecting the New Orleans Saints to find a way to pull off a win in Week 5 against the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football, but you never know.
The Saints were one of the hottest teams in the entire NFL to start this season with 91 points in their first two games, and Derek Carr seemingly on an MVP-level pace. That has all turned around the last couple of weeks as the Saints have dropped two games in a row and now face the very real possibility of losing a third straight.
We’ll see what this team is made of as they head into the hostile environment in Kansas City. The Saints have the offensive weapons to be able to hang with the Chiefs head to head, but if Alvin Kamara, Chis Olave, and Rashid Shaheed can’t cash in on some big plays, it could be a long night for New Orleans.
17. Pittsburgh Steelers
This Pittsburgh Steelers team is pretty much exactly what we’ve grown so accustomed to in the post-Ben Roethlisberger era. They play elite defense and they win one or two more low-scoring games than they lose.
The Steelers are rolling with Justin Fields through the first five games of this season, but after their home loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football, you can’t help but wonder if they are going to really start ramping up Russell Wilson who has been dealing with a calf injury since the start of training camp.
Not that losing close games comes down to just Justin Fields and what he’s doing out there, but the Steelers certainly aren’t going to let things get out of hand before they make a quarterback change. They can pitch it as the plan all along was that Russell Wilson would start, not that Justin Fields is being benched.
They’ve done a great job of keeping control of the narrative all year. This week will be interesting.
16. San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers fans have got to be thinking that this is a similar situation to the one they faced last season when they scored 17 points in three straight losses after starting the year 5-0. It just feels so uncharacteristic of this team to have a losing record, but here we are.
Injuries have really hurt the San Francisco 49ers, and obviously the main missing piece right now is star running back Christian McCaffrey. And with the news that McCaffrey was going out to Germany to get his legs looked at?
Well, it’s not good.
The 49ers are going to need to figure out ways to have other players pick up the slack in McCaffrey’s absence. There is no “replacing” a star player like that but the 49ers have to find a way, because they are currently 2-3 in a very winnable NFC West. This division feels like it’s up for grabs with all four teams struggling to varying degrees here early in the season.
15. Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles didn’t play on Sunday, but they probably needed a break this week to sort of reset.
Saquon Barkley has been such an outstanding addition to this team in 2024, but the Eagles are still figuring things out in other areas. They come out and stop the New Orleans Saints after the Saints scored 91 points in their first two games, and then they get absolutely smoked by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
One of the biggest issues for this Eagles team has honestly been the play of Jalen Hurts. Not having AJ Brown isn’t helpful, either, but Hurts has made far too many turnover-worthy plays. The Eagles need him to clean up the mistakes quickly or they are going to struggle all year.
And Vic Fangio’s defense needs to be much sharper as the Eagles have been gashed on multiple occasions.
14. Chicago Bears
Well, the Chicago Bears might be figuring some things out, eh?
The Bears had a nice win at home last week against the Los Angeles Rams, and they came back at home in Week 5 against the Carolina Panthers and absolutely took care of business to the tune of 36-10.
The most encouraging aspect of this dominant win over the Panthers was the play of quarterback Caleb Williams. Williams has started to settle in more and more by the week, and we finally saw a huge game between he and DJ Moore this season. Moore went off for over 100 yards receiving and two touchdowns against his former team, while Williams was 20-of-29 passing for over 300 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
The Bears have the complementary pieces on this roster to continue to be relevant as the season rolls along, and this was a nice win for them proving they can whoop on an inferior roster.
13. Dallas Cowboys
It’s tough to say the Dallas Cowboys played “well” against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night, but they played well enough to win, and does anything else really matter? The Cowboys found a way to get a tough road win against a great defense and a team that typically is very tough to beat on their home field.
The first handful of weeks of this 2024 season haven’t been inspiring any confidence in the Cowboys being legitimate contenders in the NFC this season, but they are 3-2 and keeping pace with the shockingly white hot Washington Commanders.
Dak Prescott orchestrated a beautiful game-winning touchdown drive and you can’t say enough about the fact that this team has been dealing with some major injuries on either side of the ball. Defensively, the Cowboys have been hit where it hurts the most with Micah Parsons, DeMarcus Walker, Sam Williams, and Marshawn Kneeland all being taken away from their pass rush.
When you can grind out these tough wins early in the year, you set yourself up for success as the roster gets healthier over the course of the season.
12. Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks have lost two games in a matter of six days, and the encouraging feeling after starting 3-0 under new head coach Mike McDaniel has completely disappeared after the team’s latest loss to the New York Giants on their home field.
And Seahawks, you guys made me look bad. I said you were one of the teams guaranteed to win…
All kidding aside, the two losses by Seattle have not been pretty. Regardless of how, Seattle allowed over 40 points against the Detroit Lions and 29 points against the New York Giants. Was Seattle’s 3-0 start just completely overrated?
They caught Bo Nix in his very first NFL game in Week 1. They beat the Patriots and Dolphins in consecutive games after that…
This team is still 3-2 and we all know “you are what your record is” but that doesn’t apply nearly as much early on in the season as it does late in the season. Seattle has to take on a ticked off 49ers team this coming week before going on the road to face off against the Atlanta Falcons. We’re about to find out what this team is made of.
11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Well, I don’t know how much you can knock the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the way things went in that Thursday night thriller against the Atlanta Falcons. That was a game for the ages, and the Bucs just made far too many errors late in that game allowing Kirk Cousins and the Falcons to kick the door open.
But this Bucs team is still one of the better squads in the NFC right now, at least in my estimation. Baker Mayfield seems to be operating the offense really effectively and the Bucs’ running backs have started to get going the last handful of weeks.
This team needs to get healthy in certain areas and specifically – they need Antoine Winfield Jr. back. Winfield hasn’t played since the Bucs’ matchup with the Washington Commanders back on September 8.
Giving up over 500 yards through the air definitely doesn’t bode well for the Bucs but this team will bounce back.
10. Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos have climbed into the top 10 of our NFL Power Rankings after winning three straight games and playing some dominant defense for five straight games to open the season. The only hiccup the Broncos had was back in Week 1 against the Seattle Seahawks when they allowed 26 points, but the offense couldn’t move the ball in that game and the defense still had a pair of safeties.
Denver’s defense got Gardner Minshew benched in their Week 5 win against the Las Vegas Raiders. Pat Surtain had two interceptions including a pick-six and Riley Moss had his first career interception.
On top of it all, Bo Nix had a three-touchdown performance (two passing, one rushing) with no turnovers for the third straight game. This Denver team under Sean Payton might have a little something cooking after wins against the Bucs, Jets, and Raiders the last three weeks.
9. Buffalo Bills
After the first three weeks of the 2024 season, I was sitting there wondering if the Buffalo Bills were going to lose a game. They were playing so inspired, and they were playing extremely balanced and complementary football.
Josh Allen looked like a man possessed out there. He was pulling all the right strings and looked like a football maestro through those first three games. But life does come at you fast in the NFL and the Bills have run into a bit of an AFC buzz-saw the last two weeks with the Baltimore Ravens in Week 4 and the Houston Texans in Week 5.
That’s a tall order for any team, and the Bills have dropped to 3-2 on the season. As certain as I was that they were going to beat Houston in Week 5, I still believe we’re going to see Buffalo bounce back rather quickly here this season. They are still going to be deadly all year long offensively, but you hate to see clunkers like we saw from Josh Allen in Week 5 where he completed just nine of his 30 pass attempts.
8. Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers finally got their first win of the season in which Jordan Love was playing the quarterback position for them after the loss back in Week 1 against the Eagles and then last weekend against the Vikings. And this Packers team continues to impress. Even in their losses this season, you just see the talent oozing all over this roster and the Packers are primed to make a run this season.
The issue facing them right now is the fact that they play in the best and most loaded division in football.
How are the Packers going to deal with the 5-0 Minnesota Vikings, the 3-1 Detroit Lions, and the 3-2 Chicago Bears? They have to make sure they win those divisional matchups whenever they get the chance and take care of business.
I’m not sure any NFL team made two better acquisitions this offseason than the Packers getting running back Josh Jacobs and safety Xavier McKinney, who have come up huge for this team in 2024.
7. Baltimore Ravens
Here come the Baltimore Ravens…After starting 0-2 in a couple of really tough losses to start the year, the Ravens appear to be back in a big way. They managed to win a heck of a shootout against the Cincinnati Bengals 41-38.
And as you would expect, Lamar Jackson was doing Lamar Jackson types of things. Jackson made one of the most sensational plays we’ve ever seen from him on a touchdown throw to Isaiah Likely, and the Ravens have now won three straight games. We expected this team to be good before the season, but it speaks to this team’s resolve, toughness, and coaching that they have been able to get to 3-2 after the way this season started against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Jackson had 342 yards passing and four touchdowns in this game against the Bengals. Most importantly, he had no interceptions and was sacked just once.
6. Atlanta Falcons
Kirk Cousins throwing for over 500 yards in 2024 was probably not on anyone’s BINGO card.
But Captain Kirk can obviously still go out there and sling it with the best of them. The Atlanta Falcons were wearing their glorious throwback uniforms on Thursday night and they couldn’t possibly lose in those uniforms, right?
The Buccaneers actually had the Falcons dead to rights in this game but they kept the door open with a late penalty, and the Falcons took advantage. The Falcons got in range for a game-tying field goal and Kirk Cousins pulled off a magical feat with a touchdown pass to KhaDarel Hodge that, I honestly still can’t even wrap my brain around how he fit it in there.
Cousins is obviously dialed right now. He’s spreading the ball around to different playmakers and the Falcons look like they have something to build on.
5. Houston Texans
Once again, you just can’t argue with the Houston Texans’ record at this point. The Texans got off to a hot start against the Josh Allen-led Buffalo Bills in Week 6, and that hot start was enough to really keep this game in favor of CJ Stroud and company.
Despite some more mistakes that nearly cost them the game.
But sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, and thankfully for the Texans, they are kind of an ideal combination of both right now. This roster is really good, obviously, but the ball has also bounced the Texans’ way a number of times this season.
And you have to give them credit – they are making just enough plays and they are 4-1. Right now, that 4-1 record feels like a rather commanding lead in the AFC South, which has been abysmal overall to start this season. One of the crazier stats from Sunday was the Texans holding Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen to just nine completions on a whopping 30 attempts.
One key in this Week 5 win for the Texans? Execution on third downs. The Texans converted 8-of-16 third down attempts vs. Buffalo.
4. Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions had an early bye week this season but they went into the bye on an absolute high with Jared Goff and the offense putting together a masterful performance on Monday Night Football against the Seattle Seahawks last week. In that game, as you’ve undoubtedly heard (unless you’ve been living under a rock), Goff didn’t throw a single incomplete pass and on top of it, he actually caught a touchdown pass.
There are few teams playing as well as the Detroit Lions in the NFL right now and they get to come out of their bye week with a road trip against the Dallas Cowboys next weekend.
We have seen the Lions win in a variety of ways this season but this team is just so well-rounded. They are one of those teams right now that is just hoping to keep on rolling and getting better as the season goes along instead of hitting a rough patch or getting in its own way.
You can feel the focus of this team when they play.
3. Washington Commanders
Is it a flaming hot take to have the Washington Commanders ranked this high? I don’t think so. The Commanders have been playing as well as any team in the NFL lately and it doesn’t matter what teams they are beating.
Winning is winning in the NFL.
The Commanders are now 4-1 and looking like one of the most well-run operations in the entire league. Jayden Daniels has been sensational. They had 434 yards of total offense with three rushing touchdowns against the hapless Browns in Week 5.
So why not this year for the Commanders in the NFC East? If you had asked me during the offseason, I would have said the NFC East was arguably the least likely division in the entire NFL to have a team go worst to first with the presence of the Eagles and Cowboys. Especially with all of the “new” in Washington this offseason.
But the Commanders are playing like one of the most galvanized teams in the league right now and they are fun to watch.
2. Kansas City Chiefs
Chiefs play Monday night vs. Saints
The Kansas City Chiefs are undefeated at the time of this post being written, and we’re obviously expecting them to stay that way after their Monday night matchup against the New Orleans Saints.
Now that we’ve said that, you know how this works…
The Chiefs haven’t been winning “pretty” all season, and they have a lot of key injuries, but they have the biggest difference-maker in the game in Patrick Mahomes and they are literally never out of a game until the clock hits 0:00. The Chiefs are just built different, and they can win close games or shootouts. They seem to find guys to make plays every single week.
And yes, the ball does bounce their way often. Calls do go their way often. But the Chiefs put themselves in position to win just about every week and they’re obviously a Super Bowl contender once again.
1. Minnesota Vikings
Well, how about the Minnesota Vikings?
The Vikings are winning no matter where they play this season, whether it’s on US soil are overseas. They have historically struggled pretty bad against Aaron Rodgers-led teams but the Vikings had Rodgers’s number on Sunday in London.
And Sam Darnold got himself a little revenge on the team that drafted him and gave up on him.
This wasn’t Darnold’s sharpest game as a member of the Vikings, but that Minnesota defense deserves some love for the way they’ve played this season as well. Brian Flores is making a case to become a head coach again and is proving that he’s not only got one of the most aggressive defenses in the NFL in terms of pressure percentage and blitz percentage but he’s got a defense that can go out there and take the ball away.
They have forced at least two turnovers in every game so far this season including three interceptions off of Aaron Rodgers.