With minicamps across the NFL just about done, let's predict the eight division winners for the 2025 NFL Season.
A few teams across the league still have a little bit of a minicamp left, but most teams are finished up and will now take a break until training camp arrives. We're getting closer and closer to the start of the 2025 NFL Season, as preseason football returns in August.
And we could also see some new division winners for 2025, as some of the winners in 2024 are on shaky ground. Let's predict the eight division winners for the 2025 NFL Season.
Who will win the eight divisions in 2025?
AFC North - Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens are absolutely going to again win the AFC North in the 2025 NFL Season unless something major happens. The team is watching as the Bengals, Steelers, and Browns all deal with major dysfunction to a degree, and their biggest challenge for the division, the Bengals, may not have both Trey Hendrickson or Shemar Stewart, as both are without contracts.
The Ravens should win this division in 2025.
AFC South - Houston Texans
The offensive line still might be a massive issue for the Houston Texans, so that could prevent them from ascending to contender status in 2025, but the other three teams in the division all seem very far away from challenging for the AFC South title, so another 10-7 season might just be enough for Houston to win it again.
They've won the division in both years of the CJ Stroud era, so they've absolutely gotten on the right track.
AFC East - Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills should cake-walk through the 2025 regular season and again capture the AFC East title. I do believe the New England Patriots could present a challenge, but they are still a solid year away from actually competing for the division. Buffalo's got an elite roster, QB, and top-notch head coach, so this is truly a well-oiled machine.
AFC West - Denver Broncos
In the AFC, I predict that we'll have just one new division winner from 2024 into 2025, as the Denver Broncos have ascended this offseason and truly have the best roster in the AFC West. Their offseason has included major additions like Dre Greenlaw, Talanoa Hufanga, Evan Engram, and now JK Dobbins.
They also added some key talent in the 2025 NFL Draft and should be in a decent position to win the division for the first time since 2015.
NFC North - Detroit Lions
I have truly gone back and forth between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers as the NFC North winner for the 2025 NFL Season, and I just have no reason to believe at this point that the Packers have done enough to overtake the Lions, as I believe the Bears and Vikings are not factors to win it in 2025.
The Lions roster talent is almost overwhelming, and while they lost both Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson to head coaching jobs, they're still built well and do have a ton of positional advantages over their divisional foes.
NFC South - Atlanta Falcons
One of my surprise teams for the 2025 NFL Season, the Atlanta Falcons could ride a year two jump from Michael Penix Jr and an improved defensive line to the NFC South title. Penix is still unrproven, but he's truly got everything he needs to make a leap and to establish himself as a franchise QB.
GM Terry Fontenot also made an insanely bold move to part with a future first-round pick to come away with James Pearce Jr in the 2025 NFL Draft, so he joins Jalon Walker as the new pass rushers to hopefully fix that unit for years to come. Give me the Falcons as the division winner. in 2025.
NFC East - Washington Commanders
A slight Super Bowl hangover for the Philadelphia Eagles is on the menu, and the Washington Commanders did add a good bit of talent this offseason. Now yes, the Terry McLaurin contract situation is a bit frustrating for them I am sure, but being that this team is in a high-end win-now window with Jayden Daniels, the front office will find a solution at some point.
Washington won 14 total games in the 2024 NFL Season between the regular and postseason, so they're already one of the best teams in the NFL. While everyone obsesses over the Eagles, don't sleep on the Commanders from taking the division back in 2025.
NFC West - Los Angeles Rams
The wise guys might pick the San Francisco 49ers due to their easy schedule, but the Los Angeles Rams have the best roster, head coach, and QB in the division. They finished the year 9-3 and could keep that up into 2025. Both Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay surely understand that they don't have much more time together, and the Rams offseason acquisitions further prove that this team is all-in once again.
Give me the Rams to win the division in 2025.