Best- and worst-case scenarios for every NFL team in 2025: Chiefs back on top? Bears to end playoff drought?
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How good (or bad) might it get for your favorite franchise this season?
The 2025 NFL season is still months away, and plenty of important position battles have yet to be decided as all 32 teams continue offseason programming, including mandatory minicamp. Still, we have a pretty firm idea of how each team will look going into the new campaign, given that the big waves of coach and player movement are in the books.
The real question is, what are proper expectations for each of those teams? Everyone anticipates recent contenders like the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles to remain in the title hunt. But what about the rest of the NFL? Which clubs deserve more attention? Which deserve, dare we say, even less hype than they might be getting?
We decided to run through the entire landscape and offer best- and worst-case scenarios for each team going into 2025. Is your favorite team a safe bet to make it to the playoffs? Or is that a pipe dream? How about a run for the Lombardi? Here's how we see it as the summer rolls on and the real games draw closer:
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