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The NFL draft is critical, pivotal -- franchise-altering. The moves teams make generate strong reactions. Analysts quickly decide which teams filled needs, which teams got great value, which teams helped themselves the most and which teams could h...

Crushing bounty-related penalties levied against the New Orleans Saints forced a re-vote in ESPN.com's first NFL Power Rankings looking ahead to the 2012 season. We planned to run the rankings after Peyton Manning signed with Denver, figuring that...

Take a bow, Green Bay Packers. You sailed through ESPN's NFL Power Rankings as the top team from Week 1 through the regular season. There was lots of movement beneath you, however. Our Power Rankings voters -- John Clayton, Paul Kuharsky, James...

The San Francisco 49ers have held on to the No. 2 spot for a fourth consecutive week in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings heading into Week 12. Our panelists appear unsympathetic to their plight traveling across the country to Baltimore on a short week. I...

So much for the AFC East. New England and Buffalo suffered the largest drops in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings heading into Week 10, with the Patriots leaving the top 10 for the first time since they were 11th back in Week 14 of the 2009 season. The se...

Four teams ranked third through ninth in ESPN's previous NFL Power Rankings lost in Week 7. Three of them remained in the top nine anyway when John Clayton, Paul Kuharsky, Ashley Fox and James Walker joined me in casting ballots this week. As b...

The last season in which the San Francisco 49ers fielded a playoff team, they peaked at No. 2 in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings. That was way back in Week 11 of 2002, when Steve Mariucci, Jeff Garcia, Terrell Owens and Garrison Hearst defined the 49ers...

The West is not yet won in the NFL, but it's winning. Teams from the two Western divisions climbed a combined 13 spots from last week in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings, with teams from their Southern counterparts falling 23 places in all. NFL Po...

One of the NFL's more fascinating weekends shook up ESPN's Power Rankings. Voters agreed on the top (Green Bay) and bottom (Kansas City). A food fight broke out in between. New Orleans, New England, Detroit, Baltimore and Buffalo rounded out the t...

Our power rankings voters weren't quite ready to send Andrew Luck to the Indianapolis Colts following Week 1. Check back in another week. If a blowout road defeat to division-rival Houston was enough to drop the Colts 14 places in our rankings ...

The New England Patriots have tightened their grip on the No. 2 spot in ESPN.com's NFL Power Rankings heading into Week 1. They even secured a No. 1 ranking on one ballot as perceptions hardened that New England, not so much Philadelphia, posed th...

The Green Bay Packers are reigning Super Bowl champions and the No. 1 team in ESPN.com's first NFL Power Rankings for the 2011 season. It's looking like their parade has taken a detour around the AFC North. James Walker, our AFC North blogger, ...

The Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers have an ascending quarterback, rock-solid stability and a proven methodology. That makes them the most logical choice for NFL team most likely to dominate several years from now (2014-16, specifically). Pi...

ESPN.com's NFL writers rank the top 10 wide receivers in the league today. Next week: Running backs. Randy Moss and Terrell Owens must be running fade routes. Neither iconic receiver drew even one vote when ESPN.com asked eight panelists to ran...

The New England Patriots could have coasted into the playoffs without paying much attention to the Miami Dolphins in Week 17. They hammered the Dolphins instead, winning 38-7 and leaving no doubt about which team would rank first in the final 2010...

The New England Patriots remained the unanimous No. 1 choice in ESPN.com's NFL Power Rankings heading into Week 17. The Patriots have never ranked lower than 10th this season. Only three teams -- Buffalo, Baltimore and Detroit -- have seen narrowe...