By Rick Morris
NOTE: Numbers in parentheses reflect previous
rankings.
TOP TIER
1 Green Bay (10-11-9-9-7-4-4-4-1-3-3-3-3-1-1-1)
2 Tampa Bay (1-2-1-3-2-2-3-3-4-2-2-2-1-2-2-2)
3 Kansas City
(2-4-4-8-8-14-13-13-10-7-6-5-5-3-3-4)
SECOND TIER
4 Buffalo
(12-11-8-5-6-7-5-7-5-10-9-10-10-10-6-5)
5 LA Rams
(4-1-6-4-3-3-1-2-3-6-7-6-6-4-4-3)
6 Tennessee
(18-16-19-17-11-10-16-10-9-12-20-21-17-20-14-8)
7 Cincinnati
(21-17-13-11-10-5-9-12-13-11-8-9-14-14-8-6)
8 New England
(14-18-16-14-17-17-10-11-8-5-5-4-4-7-10-7)
9 Dallas
(13-14-10-10-9-8-6-8-6-9-12-11-8-6-5-10)
10 Arizona (7-6-3-1-1-1-2-1-2-1-1-1-2-5-9-9)
11 San Francisco (3-8-12-13-14-20-17-19-14-13-10-15-13-13-16-16)
12 Miami
(17-19-22-27-28-28-29-27-24-20-13-12-11-11-11-14)
13 LA Chargers (15-3-2-2-5-6-8-6-11-8-11-8-7-8-12-12)
14 Las Vegas (9-10-15-18-15-13-11-16-17-22-15-16-19-16-15-15)
15 Baltimore
(6-7-7-6-4-9-7-5-7-4-4-7-9-9-13-13)
16 Indianapolis
(27-27-25-26-20-15-19-21-20-14-14-13-12-12-7-11)
17 Philadelphia
(23-24-24-19-21-22-21-23-22-18-22-20-20-17-17-17)
18 New Orleans
(22-15-18-12-13-12-12-14-15-21-24-25-25-22-24-18)
19 Pittsburgh
(16-23-23-20-18-18-15-15-16-17-21-17-24-18-22-20)
THIRD TIER
20 Minnesota
(24-20-21-16-16-16-20-22-19-15-17-19-15-15-18-19)
21 Cleveland
(5-5-5-7-12-11-14-9-12-16-18-18-16-19-19-21)
22 Seattle
(19-21-14-24-25-25-25-25-27-27-28-23-22-23-25-24)
23 Washington
(20-22-20-22-23-23-24-24-23-19-16-14-21-25-26-26)
24 Denver (11-12-17-23-24-24-22-17-25-25-19-22-18-21-21-22)
25 Atlanta
(29-25-27-25-26-19-23-18-21-24-23-24-23-24-20-25)
FOURTH TIER
26 Chicago
(26-28-26-21-22-26-26-28-28-28-26-27-26-26-23-23)
27 Houston
(25-26-30-30-31-31-31-31-32-31-31-32-32-31-27-27)
28 Carolina (8-9-11-14-19-21-18-20-18-23-27-28-28-27-28-28)
29 Detroit
(28-29-31-31-32-32-32-32-31-32-32-30-30-29-30-30)
30 Jacksonville (32-32-32-32-27-29-30-30-30-30-30-31-31-32-32-32)
31 New York Giants
(30-30-28-28-30-27-28-26-26-26-25-26-27-28-29-29)
32 New York Jets (31-31-29-29-29-30-27-29-29-29-29-29-29-30-31-31)
BIGGEST RISERS: San Francisco (5 spots)
BIGGEST FALLERS: Indianapolis (5 spots),
Chicago (3 spots)
RANKINGS BY
DIVISION – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM
NFC West: 48
AFC West: 54
AFC East: 56
AFC North: 62
NFC South: 73
NFC North: 76
AFC South: 79
NFC East: 80
RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE
AFC: 251
NFC: 277