
NFL power rankings: Where all 32 teams stand at start of 2024 season
NY Post
Is it possible that the NFL Draft and free agency don’t make that much of a difference after all?
The top of the NFL landscape entering Week 1 of the 2024 season sure looks similar to the way it shaped up at the end of the 2023 season, including top-four spots for all four teams that played on conference championship Sunday.
And five of the six teams that finished with the worst records occupy bottom-five spots before the action begins.
Just like one year ago, the proliferation of highly regarded quarterbacks across the AFC — including those returning from season-ending injuries like the Jets’ Aaron Rodgers, Bengals’ Joe Burrow, Chargers’ Justin Herbert, Colts’ Anthony Richardson and Browns’ Deshaun Watson — makes it look like a much deeper and more difficult conference than the NFC.
Without further adieu, here are The Post’s power rankings for Week 1:
The two-time defending champions sit atop the throne until on-field results prove otherwise.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











