NFL power rankings: How every team stacks up before Week 1
Welcome to the 2016 NFL season!
A brand new campaign is set to kick off, but we've been craving football for weeks (OK, months), so we're ready for the action to start.
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First, we have to get one thing out of the way: team power rankings heading into the regular season.
If you look across the landscape, there's the sure-fire Super Bowl contenders (Arizona, Carolina, Green Bay, New England, Pittsburgh) and plenty of other interesting clubs who have enough talent to make some real noise come January.
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Making predictions this early is a fool's game, but that's not what we're doing (those will come at a later date). This first edition of power rankings is simply a primer for what's to come.
Here is a list that illustrates which teams enter the year in good standing -- and which ones are probably wondering how they'll piece together the next couple months.
