The Conference Championships are in the books, and we have some big changes at the top of the NFL power rankings heading into the Super Bowl.
Learn where each NFL team stacks up in our updated power rankings and the best NFL teams for the 2025 season.
NFL Power Rankings, 2025:
| Power Rank | Team | Change | Previous |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seattle Seahawks | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | New England Patriots | 0 | 2 |
NFL Team Rankings:
1. Seattle Seahawks
Through the 2025 season, Sam Darnold was told he’d just have to avoid critical mistakes and that he wouldn’t have to do anything special to make a run with this deep Seahawks team. He responded to these comments with a season-best passing performance against Los Angeles in the NFC Championship Game. Darnold racked up a season-high 346 passing yards, connecting on 3 touchdown passes as he punched Seattle’s ticket to the Super Bowl in his first season as their starting quarterback. Jaxon Smith-Njigba made Darnold’s day look easy. He took 10 of his 12 targets for a massive 153 yards and a touchdown of his own. In Zach Charbonnet’s absence, the Seahawks once again put their full faith in Kenneth Walker III on the ground, who delivered 62 yards and the game’s opening score on his 19 total carries. He shared work with George Holani in the passing attack, who finished the day with the team’s third-most air yards (49 on 4 catches). While we didn’t get any special teams’ fireworks from Rashid Shaheed (although he made up for it with the game’s longest reception), we did see the punt coverage unit force a critical turnover to set Seattle up for the first score of the second half. After these teams traded blows through the third, the Seahawks’ defense was able to hold Matthew Stafford scoreless through the fourth, even keeping the ball out of the hands of Terrance Ferguson in the end zone to force a critical turnover on downs. The win was Mike Macdonald’s first in a Championship Game, and it sets up a Super Bowl XLIX rematch just over a decade later.
2. New England Patriots
As the snow began to fall at Mile High, so too did the chants of “MVP” as traveling Patriots fans lauded their young quarterback’s efforts. Drake Maye certainly made a convincing argument for himself, as this New England team that won just four games last season is now Super Bowl-bound. Maye finished the season with a league-high 72% completion rate as well as a No. 1-ranked 8.9 yards per pass attempt. Maye also ranks second among all playoff rushers with 5.9 yards per carry on his 24 attempts, one of which he cashed in for New England’s only AFC Championship touchdown. While Maye held things down on offense, the Pats’ defense won this contest in the trenches. The pass rush relentlessly badgered Jarrett Stidham, registering a league-high 19 pressures to add to their league-leading 69 total pressures through the playoffs. The wind may have been a factor for both kickers in this competition, but so was the hand of Leonard Taylor III, as the second-year defensive end got a paw on what would have been a game-tying kick for Denver. Just three plays later, Christian Gonzalez intercepted Stidham to seal the game, putting the final nail in the coffin of this chaotic AFC fray and sending the Patriots back to the Super Bowl for the first time since they won it all in 2019.
2026 Draft Order:
| Pick | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Las Vegas Raiders |
| 2 | New York Jets |
| 3 | Arizona Cardinals |
| 4 | Tennessee Titans |
| 5 | New York Giants |
| 6 | Cleveland Browns |
| 7 | Washington Commanders |
| 8 | New Orleans Saints |
| 9 | Kansas City Chiefs |
| 10 | Cincinnati Bengals |
| 11 | Miami Dolphins |
| 12 | Dallas Cowboys |
| 13 | Los Angeles Rams (via Falcons) |
| 14 | Baltimore Ravens |
| 15 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 16 | New York Jets (via Colts) |
| 17 | Detroit Lions |
| 18 | Minnesota Vikings |
| 19 | Carolina Panthers |
| 20 | Dallas Cowboys (via Packers) |
| 21 | Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 22 | Los Angeles Chargers |
| 23 | Philadelphia Eagles |
| 24 | Cleveland Browns (via Jaguars) |
| 25 | Chicago Bears |
| 26 | Buffalo Bills |
| 27 | San Francisco 49ers |
| 28 | Houston Texans |
| 29 | Los Angeles Rams |
| 30 | Denver Broncos |
| 31 | TBD |
| 32 | TBD |
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