NFL 2025: Post-Week 1 Power Rankings

After six long months of NFL roster changes, training camp, preseason football, and endless talk and debate, the 2025-26 NFL season has finally begun. Now, we can judge teams by what they do on the football field, not just what we think they’re capable of.

The Philadelphia Eagles may have not had the most dominant Week 1 win, letting the Dallas Cowboys hang in a one-score game, but the defending Super Bowl 59 champions are still the team to beat.

Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills outdueled Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens in an instant Sunday Night Football classic, establishing the current pecking order in the AFC. Both teams still crack the Top 3: each team’s biggest threat is each other.

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs drop a few spots after losing 27-21 to Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last Friday night.

Other ranking-altering results include the Jordan Love, Micah Parsons, Green Bay Packers stomping on the Detroit Lions, the Las Vegas Raiders starting their Geno Smith–Pete Carroll era with a 20-13 win over the New England Patriots, and Daniel Jones leading an head-turning 33-8 victory over the Miami Dolphins at home.

At the bottom of the totem pole, the New York Giants needed just one game to fall to #32: Russell Wilson’s offense was the only one in the league to fail to score 7 points in Week 1.

Read on for my 2025-26 NFL Post-Week 1 Power Rankings, and if you’d like to debate or discuss any rankings, join the conversation with @SakSports on Twitter/X, on Facebook, or by commenting directly on this post!

Post-Week 1 Power Rankings

The Buffalo Bills won a 41-40 comeback thriller to establish themselves as the best team in the AFC at the end of Week 1. (Photo: Yahoo Sports)

Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) [Last Rank: 1]
Buffalo Bills (1-0) [Last Rank: 3]
Baltimore Ravens (0-1) [Last Rank: 2]
Green Bay Packers (1-0) [Last Rank: 11]
Washington Commanders (1-0) [Last Rank: 6]
Los Angeles Chargers (1-0) [Last Rank: 12]
Kansas City Chiefs (0-1) [Last Rank: 4]
Los Angeles Rams (1-0) [Last Rank: 9]
Detroit Lions (0-1) [Last Rank: 5]
Cincinnati Bengals (1-0) [Last Rank: 8]
Denver Broncos (1-0) [Last Rank: 10]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-0) [Last Rank: 13]
Indianapolis Colts (1-0) [Last Rank: 27]
San Francisco 49ers (1-0) [Last Rank: 14]
Pittsburgh Steelers (1-0) [Last Rank: 15]
Houston Texans (0-1) [Last Rank: 7]
Dallas Cowboys (0-1) [Last Rank: 17]
Minnesota Vikings (1-0) [Last Rank: 16]
Las Vegas Raiders (1-0) [Last Rank: 18]
Seattle Seahawks (0-1) [Last Rank: 20]
Jacksonville Jaguars (1-0) [Last Rank: 22]
Chicago Bears (0-1) [Last Rank: 21]
New York Jets (0-1) [Last Rank: 25]
Atlanta Falcons (0-1) [Last Rank: 23]
Arizona Cardinals (1-0) [Last Rank: 26]
New England Patriots (0-1) [Last Rank: 24]
Tennessee Titans (0-1) [Last Rank: 31]
Cleveland Browns (0-1) [Last Rank: 32]
Miami Dolphins (0-1) [Last Rank: 18]
Carolina Panthers (0-1) [Last Week: 30]
New Orleans Saints (0-1) [Last Rank: 29]
New York Giants (0-1) [Last Rank: 28]

Biggest Winners and Losers of Week 1

Biggest Winners: While it only nudged them up a single spot, the Buffalo Bills miraculous win over the Baltimore Ravens was one of the most important results of the week. The Green Bay Packers rose 7 spots from #11 to #4 after manhandling the defending NFC North champion Detroit Lions. But the biggest leap in Week 1 was from the Indianapolis Colts, who led a scoring drive on every possession in Daniel Jones’ first start with the team. Indianapolis jumps from #27 to #13.

Biggest Losers: The New York Giants free-fell from #28 to #32 to become the worst team in the NFL, but they didn’t have the biggest Week 1 drop: that dubious honor belongs to the Miami Dolphins, who fell 11 spots from #18 to #29 after a poor performance in a 33-8 loss to the Colts.