SportsGrid NFL Power Rankings
August 19DREWBYSportsGrid
SportsGrid NFL Power Rankings
SportsGrid’s 2021 NFL Power Rankings provider our rating and insights into all 32 NFL teams. Our power ratings use a proprietary blend of data points to come up with our own ratings and EPM metric for each NFL team. The EPM or Expected Point Margin is our view of each NFL team’s expected margin of victory against a neutral team on a neutral field.
| rank | team | rating | margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas City Chiefs | 93 | 6.26 |
| 2 | Green Bay Packers | 91.9 | 5.94 |
| 3 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 91.7 | 5.88 |
| 4 | Buffalo Bills | 90.3 | 5.52 |
| 5 | New England Patriots | 88.4 | 5.06 |
| 6 | Arizona Cardinals | 86.1 | 4.61 |
| 7 | Baltimore Ravens | 80.5 | 3.65 |
| 8 | Indianapolis Colts | 74.3 | 2.77 |
| 9 | Tennessee Titans | 73.2 | 2.62 |
| 10 | San Francisco 49ers | 71.7 | 2.43 |
| 11 | Los Angeles Rams | 70.2 | 2.24 |
| 12 | Dallas Cowboys | 62.3 | 1.33 |
| 13 | Cincinnati Bengals | 62.3 | 1.32 |
| 14 | New Orleans Saints | 59 | 0.97 |
| 15 | Cleveland Browns | 57.8 | 0.84 |
| 16 | Minnesota Vikings | 56 | 0.64 |
| 17 | Los Angeles Chargers | 52.2 | 0.23 |
| 18 | Miami Dolphins | 47.8 | -0.23 |
| 19 | Denver Broncos | 45.3 | -0.5 |
| 20 | Seattle Seahawks | 40.3 | -1.04 |
| 21 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 40.2 | -1.05 |
| 22 | Washington | 39.9 | -1.08 |
| 23 | Philadelphia Eagles | 39.8 | -1.1 |
| 24 | Las Vegas Raiders | 30.8 | -2.12 |
| 25 | New York Giants | 28.3 | -2.44 |
| 26 | Carolina Panthers | 24.6 | -2.91 |
| 27 | Chicago Bears | 23.3 | -3.1 |
| 28 | Atlanta Falcons | 20 | -3.57 |
| 29 | New York Jets | 5.4 | -6.8 |
| 30 | Houston Texans | 3.5 | -7.67 |
| 31 | Jacksonville Jaguars | 1.9 | -8.75 |
| 32 | Detroit Lions | 1 | -9.94 |
