NFL Power Rankings Week 1: Predicting Season-Opening Standings

September 7, 2015   ·   Danny Garrison   ·   Jump to comments

After a month of watching camp arms throw touchdowns to undrafted free agents, it's always a refreshing change of pace when the games start to matter in the NFL and we can begin to quantify each team's capabilities with a record. 
It's less refreshing when your team starts 0-1, but that's the way the cookie crumbles for 16 fanbases. 
In Week 1, there will be upsets, and there will be subsequent overreactions. Take the Indianapolis Colts' opening-week trip to Buffalo, for example. If the Bills knock off Indy, new Buffalo head coach Rex Ryan becomes a deity for a week and the Colts' perceived Super Bowl chances are shot. 
That's the haunting beauty of Week 1's unrepresentative sample size. 
Here, we'll get out in front of those reactionary impulses by predicting the NFL's power rankings following the first slate of games and examining four teams that could capture your imagination in their first outings of the season. 
In this list, an 0-...

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