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NFL Nation reporters
Welcome to Week 14 of the NFL regular season.
Our powerfulness sheet -- a radical of much than 80 writers, editors and TV personalities -- has evaluated however teams are stacking up done 13 weeks.
There were precise flimsy movements successful the rankings this week. A caller No. 1 prime has been named aft the Kansas City Chiefs fell to the Cincinnati Bengals connected Sunday. Plus, an improbable Pittsburgh Steelers squad climbs successful the poll.
In summation to our updated rankings, we checked successful with NFL Nation reporters crossed the league and asked them to sanction a stat successful which each squad ranks No. 1. Some teams excel successful unreserved defence and different radiance successful scoring, and immoderate are No. 1 successful metrics they astir apt don't privation to beryllium the champion in.
Now, let's instrumentality a look astatine the updated rankings.
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
1. Philadelphia Eagles (11-1)
Week 13 ranking: 2
We're No. 1 in... turnover margin.
The Eagles are an NFL-best 13-plus successful that section -- a large crushed wherefore they person the league's champion record. The defence is apical successful takeaways with 23 portion the discourtesy has turned the shot implicit conscionable 9 times, which ranks second. Quarterback Jalen Hurts deserves overmuch of the credit, having thrown 3 interceptions to 20 touchdowns connected the year. -- Tim McManus
2. Kansas City Chiefs (9-3)
Week 13 ranking: 1
We're No. 1 in... scoring.
The Chiefs stay No. 1 offensively with an mean of 29.2 points per game. Their pb was built connected the spot of 3 40-plus constituent games successful their archetypal seven. Since then, the Chiefs person lone topped their mean erstwhile successful 5 games, that being a 30-point show successful a triumph implicit the Chargers successful Week 11. The Chiefs scored 17, 20 and 24 successful their 3 losses. -- Adam Teicher
3. Buffalo Bills (9-3)
Week 13 ranking: 3
We're No. 1 in... the AFC.
After beating the Patriots connected Thursday, the Bills sat connected their couches Sunday and watched the Dolphins and Chiefs lose, moving Buffalo to the apical spot successful the AFC with 5 weeks to go. Wins implicit the Chiefs (with whom they stock the aforesaid record), Ravens and Titans could beryllium to beryllium cardinal for the Bills arsenic the 3 teams are down them successful the standings. Securing home-field vantage has been a precedence aft consecutive trips to Kansas City successful the playoffs. With the Bills successful complaint of their ain destiny, back-to-back location games against the Jets and Dolphins volition beryllium crucial, on with "Monday Night Football" astatine Cincinnati. -- Alaina Getzenberg
4. Dallas Cowboys (9-3)
Week 13 ranking: 4
We're No. 1 in... point differential.
Even though the Cowboys are 9-3 and don't pb their division, they are 127-plus connected the play with 333 points for and 206 against. That's a motion of however ascendant they tin be. In the past 3 games they are 80-plus, which would beryllium tied for 5th champion successful the NFL implicit the people of the season. In their past 5 games, they person scored 25 violative touchdowns and 2 antiaircraft touchdowns. -- Todd Archer
2:07 Dan Orlovsky doesn't recognize however anyone could judge determination is adjacent a contention betwixt the Cowboys and Eagles for the champion squad successful the NFC.
5. Minnesota Vikings (10-2)
Week 13 ranking: 6
We're No. 1 in... wins by 1 possession.
Nine of the Vikings' 10 victories this play person been decided by 1 possession (eight points oregon less). In fact, they are the archetypal squad successful NFL past to commencement a play with a 9-0 grounds successful specified games. (Their different victory, successful Week 1 against the Packers, came by a borderline of 16 points.) One mentation present is that the Vikings are rather fortunate to person won arsenic galore games arsenic they have. Another is that they're primed for the postseason, wherever games are often competed into the last minute. -- Kevin Seifert
6. Miami Dolphins (8-4)
Week 13 ranking: 5
We're No. 1 in... the percent of violative plays going for 10-plus yards.
A ridiculous 25% of the Dolphins' violative plays this play person gained astatine slightest 10 yards, which highlights the explosive quality of this offense. It's the crushed this squad is hard to number out, adjacent erstwhile they're down aggregate scores -- arsenic the Baltimore Ravens recovered retired successful melodramatic manner successful Week 2. Miami is not wholly reliant connected large plays, but there's arguably nary different discourtesy that's much susceptible of providing them. -- Marcel Louis-Jacques
7. San Francisco 49ers (8-4)
Week 13 ranking: 7
We're No. 1 in... scoring defense.
The 49ers' defence leads the league successful plentifulness of categories but nary substance much than this one. San Francisco has yielded conscionable 15.8 points per game. Having mislaid 2 starting quarterbacks (Trey Lance, Jimmy Garoppolo) to season-ending injuries, adjacent much onus volition autumn connected the defense. If that portion tin support playing astatine this level, rookie Brock Purdy and Co. won't person to bash overmuch to support the Niners rolling toward the postseason. -- Nick Wagoner
8. Cincinnati Bengals (8-4)
Week 13 ranking: 8
We're No. 1 in... defensive completion percentage.
Bengals coordinator Lou Anarumo has stymied opposing quarterbacks this season. Cincinnati leads the NFL successful opposing completion percent astatine 59%, according to ESPN Stats & Information. It's an awesome feat fixed the Bengals are without apical cornerback Chidobe Awuzie, who went down Week 8 with a torn ACL. The Bengals person held 8 opponents nether the 60% mark. That includes Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes, who completed 59.3% of his passes successful the team's Week 13 nonaccomplishment successful Cincinnati. -- Ben Baby
9. Baltimore Ravens (8-4)
Week 13 ranking: 10
We're No. 1 in... run artifact triumph rate.
Even though Lamar Jackson grabs astir of the attraction for his highlight-making runs, the occurrence of the Ravens' crushed crippled starts up front. Baltimore's tally artifact triumph complaint is 75.7%, which is the champion successful the league. The Ravens person 4 violative linemen who fertile sixth oregon higher successful tally blocking astatine their positions: violative tackles Patrick Mekari (fourth) and Ronnie Stanley (sixth), defender Ben Powers (sixth) and halfway Tyler Linderbaum (sixth). This isn't a astonishment considering Baltimore ranked successful the apical 5 successful tally artifact triumph complaint the past 4 years, including No. 1 successful 2018 and 2019. -- Jamison Hensley
10. Seattle Seahawks (7-5)
Week 13 ranking: 14
We're No. 1 in... completion percentage.
The Seahawks are tops by a sizable borderline astatine 72.5%, much than 3 percent points higher than the second-ranked team. It's a reflection of however businesslike their passing crippled has been arsenic a whole, with an violative enactment that's been bully successful walk protection, receivers who are creating separation and -- much than thing -- the astir close backmost successful the NFL. And it's not arsenic though Geno Smith has simply been feasting connected short, high-percentage throws. He leads the league completion percent supra expected (a Next Gen Stat that factors successful the trouble of each throw) and adjusted completion complaint (a akin stat that's weighted by aerial yards and excludes drops and throwaways). -- Brady Henderson
11. Tennessee Titans (7-5)
Week 13 ranking: 9
We're No. 1 in... gross punt yards per game.
The Titans are No. 1 successful gross punt yards per crippled astatine 294.4. Rookie punter Ryan Stonehouse has been a agleam spot connected peculiar teams for Tennessee. Stonehouse is averaging 53.5 gross yards per punt and has downed opponents wrong the 20 a full of 24 times. The rookie has surpassed 400 punting yards 3 times this season. -- Turron Davenport
12. New York Jets (7-5)
Week 13 ranking: 11
We're No. 1 in... fourth 4th constituent differential.
The Jets person outscored opponents 94-40 -- an awesome plus-54 constituent margin. This is 1 of the cardinal reasons for the team's 7-5 record, arsenic beardown finishes person proved captious successful 5 of their victories. Reasons: Excellent defence (40 points is simply a league low), timely offense, dependable coaching adjustments and bully roster depth. -- Rich Cimini
0:53 Although he's disappointed astir the Jets' nonaccomplishment to the Vikings, Rex Ryan inactive sees encouraging signs successful New York.
13. Washington Commanders (7-5-1)
Week 13 ranking: 12
We're No. 1 in... time of possession.
The Commanders pb the NFL by averaging 32:59 clip of possession each week. They've been bully successful this country each play but it's been pronounced successful the past 8 weeks erstwhile they've gone 6-1-1, successful portion by keeping the shot for an mean of 33:48. Their renewed committedness to the tally crippled has helped a batch -- they averaged 89 yards and 3.87 yards per transportation successful the archetypal 5 games; it's 146.6 and 4.10 successful the past eight. Finally, the effect has been the defence playing 5 less plays per crippled since Week 5, keeping them fresh. -- John Keim
14. New York Giants (7-4-1)
Week 13 ranking: 13
We're No. 1 in... fumble recoveries.
Ok, truthful the Giants are really tied for archetypal successful this class with the Cowboys, each with 11 fumble recoveries. But, man, it was pugnacious to find thing the Giants were the champion at. Not surprisingly, 8 of the 11 fumble recoveries person travel successful their 7 wins. A ninth came successful their necktie to Washington. Cornerback Adoree' Jackson and information Dane Belton are tied for the squad pb with 2 fumble recoveries apiece. -- Jordan Raanan
15. New England Patriots (6-6)
Week 13 ranking: 15
We're No. 1 in... opposition net-punt average.
Opponents person a 37-yard net-punting mean against the Patriots, which ranks New England champion successful that category. A large portion of that has been the emergence of rookie punt returner Marcus Jones (20 returns, 294 yards, 14.7 avg.), who has received immoderate coagulated blocking successful beforehand of him, with longtime seasoned Matthew Slater and up-and-coming rookie Brenden Schooler playing starring roles. -- Mike Reiss
16. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-6)
Week 13 ranking: 16
We're No. 1 in... fewest interceptions.
Quarterback Tom Brady has lone thrown 3 interceptions this play -- tied for the fewest successful the NFL with Jalen Hurts, and the fewest successful his vocation successful a play done 12 games. That's not needfully a bully thing, however, arsenic helium is taking acold less chances with the ball, and helium has lone thrown 14 touchdown passes for the season. The Bucs are averaging conscionable 17.5 violative points per game, which ranks 26th successful the league. -- Jenna Laine
17. Los Angeles Chargers (6-6)
Week 13 ranking: 17
We're No. 1 in... yards allowed per carry.
This isn't precisely the class you privation to beryllium ranked No. 1 successful -- allowing a league-worst 5.4 yards per carry. But aft 13 weeks and contempt a important overhaul to their antiaircraft front, that's wherever the Bolts stand. It hasn't helped that respective cardinal antiaircraft players person been sidelined this season, including Joey Bosa, Austin Johnson, Christian Covington and Otito Ogbonnia. Head manager Brandon Staley has emphasized that it takes each 11 antiaircraft players to halt the run. "Run defence is simply a squad operation," helium said. -- Lindsey Thiry
18. Las Vegas Raiders (5-7)
Week 13 ranking: 20
We're No. 1 in... the longest unreserved of the season.
Josh Jacobs' epic 86-yard walk-off tally successful Seattle connected Nov. 27 did much than springiness the Raiders an overtime triumph -- it was the longest unreserved of the season. And it contributes to the Raiders besides starring the NFL successful mean yards aft archetypal interaction (2.33). Jacobs, who had his fifth-year enactment declined by the Raiders' caller enactment this offseason, is successful enactment for a large payday arsenic helium leads the league with 1,303 rushing yards. Curiously enough, Las Vegas is conscionable 13th arsenic a squad with 1,505 yards connected the ground. -- Paul Gutierrez
19. Pittsburgh Steelers (5-7)
Week 13 ranking: 26
We're No. 1 in... field goals.
It's a good/bad quality benignant of stat. The Steelers pb the league successful some tract extremity attempts (32) and tract goals made (26). Their marque percent is successful the bottommost fractional of the league, but with a groin wounded landing longtime kicker Chris Boswell connected IR, that's not wholly surprising. The crushed the Steelers pb the league successful tract extremity attempts, though, is due to the fact that their reddish portion ratio is among the league's worst, scoring touchdowns connected little than fractional of their trips wrong the 20. -- Brooke Pryor
20. Detroit Lions (5-7)
Week 13 ranking: 23
We're No. 1 in... red portion efficiency.
The Lions are beauteous overmuch wealth connected the extremity line, acknowledgment to the beardown rushing onslaught spearheaded by the backfield of Jamaal Williams and D'Andre Swift. The Lions are scoring touchdowns successful the reddish portion 73.9% of the time. Williams besides leads the league successful full rushing touchdowns with 14 connected the play arsenic the team's preferred extremity enactment threat, which has go a well-oiled instrumentality erstwhile they request points. -- Eric Woodyard
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21. Green Bay Packers (5-8)
Week 13 ranking: 19
We're No. 1 in... all-time NFL wins.
This play successful full mightiness not beryllium remembered for overmuch successful presumption of success, but they are No. 1 -- for present -- successful 1 thing: All-time wins. Sunday's triumph implicit the Bears was their 787th NFL victory, 1 much than the Bears. It's the archetypal clip since 1921 that anyone different than the Bears did not ain astatine slightest a stock of the all-time wins lead. The past squad to bash truthful earlier the Packers was the Buffalo All-Americans, with 18 wins successful 1921. -- Rob Demovsky
22. Jacksonville Jaguars (4-8)
Week 13 ranking: 22
We're No. 1 in... going for it connected 4th down successful the 3rd quarter.
The Jaguars person gone for it connected 4th down successful the 3rd 4th astir fractional the time: 43.8% (seven times retired of 16 4th downs). That's astir doubly the percent of the adjacent closest teams (Kansas City and the New York Giants astatine 22.2%). That's partially due to the fact that caput manager Doug Pederson believes successful being assertive connected 4th down, but besides due to the fact that the Jaguars person trailed astatine the fractional successful six games. -- Michael DiRocco
23. Cleveland Browns (5-7)
Week 13 ranking: 24
We're No. 1 in... a player's rushing yards aft contact.
Nick Chubb leads the NFL successful yards aft interaction per unreserved (2.60), powering 1 of the apical rushing attacks successful the NFL. With Kareem Hunt ranking 16th successful yards aft interaction per unreserved (2.03), Cleveland remains 1 of the champion tackle-breaking rushing offenses successful the league. -- Jake Trotter
24. Atlanta Falcons (5-8)
Week 13 ranking: 18
We're No. 1 in... Avery Williams' 17.44 yards per punt return.
The second-year pro has bounced betwixt defence and discourtesy -- starting his vocation arsenic a country earlier moving to moving backmost this twelvemonth -- but his biggest publication has been connected peculiar teams. He has 16 returns this twelvemonth for 279 yards. Even though he's tied for 17th successful instrumentality numbers, he's tied for 3rd successful yards and been a game-changer astatine the presumption for Atlanta, which besides has the all-time NFL person successful footwear instrumentality touchdowns, with Cordarrelle Patterson arsenic their footwear returner.-- Michael Rothstein
25. New Orleans Saints (4-9)
Week 13 ranking: 21
We're No. 1 in... negative turnover differential.
The Colts conscionable caught up to them aft Monday night's game, but the Saints person consistently led the league this play with a atrocious turnover ratio. The Saints are minus-12 successful turnover margin, with their defence seldom taking the shot distant and their discourtesy routinely giving it distant -- an contented that has caused them to suffer much than 1 crippled this season. -- Katherine Terrell
26. Arizona Cardinals (4-8)
Week 13 ranking: 25
We're No. 1 in... most violative penalties.
The Cardinals pb the NFL successful astir violative penalties and astir accepted violative penalties, with 53 and 44, respectively. Penalties, particularly untimely flags, extremity up costing Arizona successful situations that aren't ideal, and person been a occupation for the Cardinals not conscionable this year, but passim Kliff Kingsbury's tenure. -- Josh Weinfuss
27. Carolina Panthers (4-8)
Week 13 ranking: 28
We're No. 1 in... run artifact triumph complaint for guards.
Brady Christensen and Austin Corbett person a combined tally artifact triumph complaint of 75.3, which successful portion explains wherefore the moving crippled has gotten truthful steadfast the past month. They've helped D'Onta Foreman unreserved for much than 100 yards successful 4 of his past six games since prima Christian McCaffrey was traded to the San Francisco 49ers. That's helped interim manager Steve Wilks spell 3-0 astatine location since taking over. -- David Newton
28. Indianapolis Colts (4-8-1)
Week 13 ranking: 27
We're No. 1 in... turnovers.
The Colts pb the NFL successful turnovers, and this favoritism is the azygous biggest crushed Indianapolis has been successful shambles connected offense. The Colts committed 5 turnovers successful Sunday night's epic nonaccomplishment astatine Dallas, with giveaways connected 4 consecutive possessions successful the Cowboys' grounds 33-point fourth-quarter deluge. Between Matt Ryan's league-leading 13 interceptions and the Colts' league-high 12 mislaid fumbles, turnovers person wholly undermined the Colts. -- Stephen Holder
29. Los Angeles Rams (3-9)
Week 13 ranking: 30
We're No. 1 in... offensive enactment combinations.
The communicative of the play for this Rams squad has been injuries, and that started up connected the violative line. On Sunday, the Rams started their 12th antithetic violative enactment operation of the season. According to Elias Sports Bureau, the Rams are the lone squad successful the Super Bowl epoch (since 1966) to usage a antithetic starting five-man violative enactment operation successful each of their archetypal 12 games of a season. -- Sarah Barshop
30. Chicago Bears (3-10)
Week 13 ranking: 29
We're No. 1 in... rushing yards by a quarterback.
Justin Fields has 905 rushing yards successful 12 games acknowledgment successful portion to an uptick of designed runs starting successful Week 7. He's gone six consecutive games with a rushing touchdown, tied for the longest streak by a backmost since 1950, and is connected gait to interruption the Bears' franchise backmost rushing grounds presently held by Bobby Douglass (968) successful 1972. His 3 rushing TDs of 50-plus yards are the astir by immoderate backmost for his vocation successful the Super Bowl era. With 4 games remaining, Fields is connected gait to unreserved for implicit 1,200 yards, which would beryllium the astir ever by a backmost successful a season. -- Courtney Cronin
31. Denver Broncos (3-9)
Week 13 ranking: 31
We're No. 1 in... reddish portion defense.
Other than starring the league successful soul-crushing, one-score losses -- they've had 7 of those this play -- the Broncos' defence continues to beryllium 1 of the league's champion connected each fronts with top-three presumption successful scoring defense, full defense, walk defence and connected 3rd down. But they pb the mode successful reddish portion defence arsenic opponents person scored touchdowns connected conscionable 32% of the trips wrong the Denver 20-yard line. That hasn't been capable to counteract the Broncos' lowest scoring offense, though, which is tied for past successful reddish portion efficiency. -- Jeff Legwold
32. Houston Texans (1-10-1)
Week 13 ranking: 32
We're No. 1 in... opposing quarterbacks' reddish portion completion percentage.
The Texans' defence is holding quarterbacks to a completion of 40.4% successful the reddish zone, the champion successful the NFL. It's portion of the crushed wherefore the they lone let touchdowns connected 51.28% of opposing offenses trips, seventh champion successful the NFL. They besides person 2 interceptions successful the reddish zone, which is tied for 3rd most. -- DJ Bien-Aime
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