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The San Francisco 49ers are one of seven NFL teams with at least four victories through Week 5. They ranked only 16th in ESPN's NFL Power Ranking last week. The new rankings come out Tuesday. How high should the 49ers rank following their 48...

ESPN.com NFL Power Ranking (pre-camp): 32 EARTH CITY, Mo. -- The quivering hand pressed against Jason Brown's backside belonged to the first player chosen in the 2010 NFL draft. Alas, the week before St. Louis Rams training camp was tough on qu...

ESPN.com NFL Power Ranking (pre-camp): 25 RENTON, Wash. -- Elevated speakers pump out PG-13 lyrics and hip-hop beats all through Seattle Seahawks practice. "I'm fresh, I'm fly, I'm always high," boasts rapper Lloyd Banks of G-Unit fame, "got ya...

ESPN.com NFL Power Ranking (pre-camp): 15 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- You know what the 2010 Arizona Cardinals are not. They're not the team with Pro Bowl-caliber talents Kurt Warner, Anquan Boldin, Karlos Dansby and Antrel Rolle. They're not the team ...

Teams have added 254 players in the draft since ESPN's NFL Power Rankings last appeared six weeks ago. We've seen Carson Palmer join the Arizona Cardinals and Darrelle Revis join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, among other changes involving veteran players...

We might have to suspend longstanding charges of East Coast bias after the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers landed 1-2 in ESPN's latest NFL Power Rankings. ESPN NFL Power Rankings Team SEA SF STL ARI '10 Wk. 1 26t...

An NFC West team other than the one recently appearing in the Super Bowl ranks No. 1 in ESPN's first NFL Power Rankings of the 2013 offseason. Call us suckers for the excitement of free agency and the trade market, but the Seattle Seahawks' recent...

The top four teams in ESPN's final 2012 NFL Power Rankings should come as no surprise. All four have first-round byes in the playoffs. The top three -- Denver, Atlanta and San Francisco -- remain unchanged from last week. New England is fourth....

The Seattle Seahawks and the NFL won big Sunday night. That 42-13 victory Seattle posted over the San Francisco 49ers made Green Bay a strong favorite to secure the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoff race. If the Packers do secure that second seed,...

ESPN's John Clayton raised eyebrows around here when he ranked the Atlanta Falcons atop his power rankings ballot last week. The Falcons had just suffered a 30-20 defeat to Carolina, after all. They were looking as if they would again become play...

AFC teams hold the top three spots in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings for the first time this season. The New England Patriots, fresh off a 42-14 victory over the Houston Texans, are back in the No. 1 spot for the first time since Week 2. They have a 1-...

The Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles are riding eight-game losing streaks 16 months after making the Kevin Kolb trade. Those losing streaks were enough for me to list them 31st and 32nd, respectively, on my ESPN.com NFL Power Rankings bal...

The mission is clear for the reigning No. 1 team in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings: Keep quarterback Matt Schaub healthy at all costs. The Texans lost Schaub late last season and had no chance to advance through the playoffs as a result. With Schaub he...

Twelve of the top 13 teams in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings have what those teams would consider clearly identified franchise quarterbacks. It might even be 20 of the top 21, depending on one's view. Then there are the San Francisco 49ers. They ha...

Even good teams inexplicably have a bad game every so often. Some teams have bad months. The Arizona Cardinals have fallen from 4-0 to 4-5 while extending to 10 their streak of defeats in October games. The New York Giants are 13-21 in Novem...

The San Francisco 49ers, fourth in our latest NFL power rankings, sit atop the "Bettors' Poll" heading into Week 10. I'd never seen the Bettors' Poll before running across it Tuesday night. Dave Tuley, who picks NFL games against the spread f...