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Arrow indicates direction team is trending. Final Power Ranking: 8 Preseason Power Ranking: 9 Biggest surprise: LaDainian Tomlinson was supposed to limp into the sunset when he left the San Diego Chargers. The Jets were criticized for dumping ...

Arrow indicates direction team is trending. Final Power Ranking: 1 Preseason Power Ranking: 10 Biggest surprise: The idea of Tom Brady putting together yet another sterling campaign couldn't have been weird to any sane football fan before the ...

Arrow indicates direction team is trending. Final Power Ranking: 22 Preseason Power Ranking: 11 Biggest surprise: The Dolphins seemed to have all the parts in place for a vibrant and diverse offensive attack. They traded for prolific receiver ...

Arrow indicates direction team is trending. Final Power Ranking: 30 Preseason Power Ranking: 31 Biggest surprise: The Bills opened the season 0-8, which would be considered a mild surprise. They weren't supposed to win. Most shocking was first...

Each week, Scouts Inc. analyst Matt Williamson will present Rookie Watch, a power ranking of the NFL's best newcomers. His introductory list is headlined by San Diego Chargers running back Ryan Mathews. Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller i...

ESPN.com NFL Power Ranking (pre-camp): 7 CORTLAND, N.Y. -- There's a healthy chance you're already sick of the New York Jets. You're sick of their loudmouth coach, sick of their hotshot quarterback, sick of their trash-talking defense, sick of ...

ESPN.com NFL Power Ranking (pre-camp): 9 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Is this the year another AFC East team surpasses the New England Patriots in wins? For nine straight seasons, no team in the division has won more games each season than the Patriots...

ESPN.com NFL Power Ranking (pre-camp): 13 DAVIE, Fla. -- The Miami Dolphins might be the best NFL team people don't notice. They're often overlooked in the AFC East. The New England Patriots have at least tied for the division's best record in ...

ESPN.com NFL Power Ranking (pre-camp): 31 PITTSFORD. N.Y. -- Of any preseason prediction I can make, the one I'm most confident in is that the Buffalo Bills will finish fourth in the AFC East. That slot would be neither general manager Buddy Ni...

A team-by-team analysis of the division. The arrow indicates which direction each team is trending. New England Patriots Final Power Ranking: 10 Biggest surprise: Tully Banta-Cain largely was considered an afterthought to the Patriots' defen...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Graham Check out the ESPN.com Week 8 NFL power rankings. You won't see any wild movement among the AFC East teams, but everybody changed position from last week. Three went up; one went down. The mighty power ranking...

Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando Power Ranking Team Highest Vote Lowest Vote Disparity 20 Carolina 11 27 16 27 Oakland 19 32 13 17 Arizona 13 25 12 26 St. Louis 19 31 12 9 Seattle 6 17 11 13 Philadelphia 9 19 10 14 Tennessee 10 20 10 16 Washingto...

In response to the relentless stream of power rankings that have sustained us through the lockout, friend of the blog Bill Barnwell recently compiled his list of the NFL's 25 least valuable players at Grantland.com. You probably can guess a few pl...

This week's Power Rankings took a gander at the NFL's best up-and-coming assistant coaches. To define the list, ESPN.com's panel of division bloggers decided we would concentrate on assistants who have never been head coaches (we didn't count inte...

ESPN.com's mighty Power Rankings conglomerate ranked the NFL's left tackles. Over at NFL.com, senior analyst Pat Kirwan rated the 25 best offensive linemen. As Kirwan has been doing with his positional rankings, he also noted whether each player w...

Jake Long or Joe Thomas? It's like deciding between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. They're both elite. You can't go wrong with either pick. But when you belong to ESPN.com's prestigious Power Rankings syndicate, you have to make tough choices. ...