Let's rank the best NFL divisions this season: Could all four NFC North teams go to the playoffs?

The dream, successful the 14-team NFL playoff era, is 1 part getting each 4 teams into the postseason. It hasn't happened yet, but we've been close. The AFC West and the NFC North each enactment 3 successful the playoffs past season. The AFC North did the aforesaid the twelvemonth before, erstwhile each 4 of its teams had winning records but the 9-8 Bengals missed the postseason. In 2022, the NFC East, if you tin judge it, came the closest erstwhile Washington went 8-8-1 and missed the playoffs by fractional a game.

Someday, this volition happen. And erstwhile it does, determination volition beryllium nary statement astir which of the league's 8 divisions is the best. Until then, erstwhile we bash our yearly ranking of the divisions, we person a debate.

In this exercise, we thin to item the mode ESPN's Football Power Index ranks the divisions, but we don't conscionable thin all the mode into that. What would beryllium the amusive of that? Anyone tin conscionable look up the FPI and benignant it from highest to lowest.

So, fixed that the extremity is for 1 part to spell for 4-for-4, that's the mode we've decided to bash our part rankings for 2025: Rank them successful bid of astir to slightest apt to enactment each 4 teams successful the playoffs. This is wherever it drifts into the realm of opinion, which means you get to outcry astatine maine online that I'm wrong. So bask that.

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AFC: East | West | North | South
NFC: East | West | North | South

1. NFC North

Combined FPI rating: 7.8 wide (first)

1. Detroit Lions: 5.7 (second successful NFL)

2. Green Bay Packers: 4.6 (third)

3. Minnesota Vikings: minus-1.1 (19th)

4. Chicago Bears: minus-1.4 (20th)

Through 5 weeks, this is the lone part successful which nary squad has a losing record. The apical 3 teams person affirmative constituent differentials and each made the 2024 postseason, with Detroit and Minnesota posting 2 of the 3 champion records successful the full league.

The Bears, the lone NFC North squad to miss the postseason successful 2024, look precise overmuch improved nether new coach Ben Johnson. And if Caleb Williams is truly taking the ...