2025 NFL 'Triplets' rankings: Bengals reclaim top spot, Chiefs fall from league's elite in QB-RB-WR/TE list
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Breaking down every team's offensive trio
Well, folks, it's that time of the year around here once again. We are here to take a look at the NFL's best QB-RB-WR/TE trios, also known as their "triplets," in reference to the famed Troy Aikman-Emmitt Smith-Michael Irvin group that led the Cowboys to a dynasty in the early 1990s.
For some teams, it was obvious who would fill each role. For others, less so. Where we had to make judgment calls on which player would start at quarterback or who would be the top target, we did. For the most part, that meant deferring to veteran skill-position players unless it was clear that the younger player would take a significant step forward. (So, for example, we still have Jayden Reed as the wide receiver for the Packers despite the fact that they drafted Matthew Golden, but we have Tetairoa McMillan for the Panthers sliding ahead of Adam Thielen.)
This is, incredibly, our ninth year doing this exercise, which is pretty crazy to me as the guy who has been compiling and analyzing these lists year after year. But in case you haven't read the prior version of this post either last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, here's how the crew here at CBSSports.com recently set out to rank each team's triplets:
