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Welcome to Week 6 of the NFL regular season.
Our power panel — a group of more than 80 writers, editors and TV personalities — evaluated how teams are stacking up through five weeks.
This week, our rankings saw the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers vault into the top 10, while the struggling Los Angeles Rams and Miami Dolphins fell out. After disappointing losses to opponents in the AFC South, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Denver Broncos took a decent slide down the rankings. And the New York Jets rose to the top half of this list for the first time since … it’s been a while.
In addition to these updated rankings, we checked in with NFL Nation reporters across the league and asked them to identify each team’s biggest obstacle to making the playoffs. We paired the responses with each team’s projected playoff chances and with its chances of winning its division, as powered by ESPN’s Football Power Index.
Let’s get to it.
Jump to a team:
ARI | ATL | BAL | BUF | CAR | CHI | CIN
CLE | DAL | DEN | DET | GB | HOU | IND
JAX | KC | LV | LAC | LAR | MIA | MIN
NE | NO | NYG | NYJ | PHI | PIT | SF
SEA | TB | TEN | WSH
Week 5 ranking: 1
Chance to make the playoffs: 99.0%
Chance to win their division: 87.8%
The Chiefs need to improve their defense in the red zone. They were allowing a touchdown on 80% of their opponents’ trips inside the 20 — worst in the league — heading into Monday night’s game against the Raiders. This flaw was already costly in the loss to the Colts, when an inability to force a field goal on Indy’s first and last possessions was the difference in the game. To ensure the Chiefs make the playoffs, this needs to be fixed. — Adam Teicher
Week 5 ranking: 2
Chance to make the playoffs: 99.1%
Chance to win their division: 90.9%
It’s difficult to imagine a scenario that involves this team not making the postseason, but one area that the offense has struggled with is establishing the running game outside of quarterback Josh Allen. Much of that…
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Source : espn
