2021 NFL Power Rankings Week 2: Super Bowl champs start season at the top

Week one of the 2021 NFL Season is officially in the books, and if the rest of the season is anything like the first week, fans everywhere are in for a treat. The Buffalo Bills looked like a completely different team than a season ago, losing their home-opener to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The same can be said about the New York Jets, who played competitive football for sixty minutes, narrowly losing to the Carolina Panthers at home. And then who can forget the Miami Dolphins—on the road—defeating Mac Jones and the New England Patriots 17-16 to take sole possession of the first place in the East. Yep, it’s been a wild first week.

But before we turn the page and set our sights on Miami’s home-opener vs. the Buffalo Bills Kevin and I are going to bring you our week two power rankings.

If you remember last year’s power rankings, we do them a little differently. We do not have just one person make a list of teams, then slightly adjust week to week for a win or a loss. Instead, Kevin Nogle and Josh Houtz get together and conduct a draft of the teams. The question used to select the teams is, “Who can win the Super Bowl?” We start with a clean list each week and take turns making picks.

This week, Houtz has the odd picks while Nogle takes the even selections:

1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2. Kansas City Chiefs
3. Los Angeles Rams
4. Cleveland Browns
5. Arizona Cardinals
6. Seattle Seahawks
7. New Orleans Saints
8. Buffalo Bills
9. Pittsburgh Steelers
10. Baltimore Ravens
11. Green Bay Packers
12. San Francisco 49ers
13. Dallas Cowboys
14. Miami Dolphins
15. Los Angeles Chargers
16. Tennessee Titans
17. New England Patriots
18. Las Vegas Raiders
19. Denver Broncos
20. Philadelphia Eagles
21. Carolina Panthers
22. Indianapolis Colts
23. Cincinnati Bengals
24. Minnesota Vikings
25. Washington Football Team
26. Atlanta Falcons
27. Chicago Bears
28. Houston Texans
29. New York Jets,
30. New York Giants
31. Detroit Lions
32. Jacksonville Jaguars