Ranking NFL's most vulnerable division winners for 2025, from sturdy Chiefs to streaky Rams
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Which of the league's reigning champions could lose their crown?
The 2025 NFL season is fast approaching, and we can already guess a few of the typical Super Bowl contenders: the Philadelphia Eagles, for example, and the Kansas City Chiefs, who just represented their respective conferences in the big game. There's also the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens, two non-Chiefs powerhouses out of the AFC. How many of these heavyweights, however, are even locks to win their division in 2025?
Some divisions have stayed in the same hands for years. Others have traded hands on an annual basis. So where, exactly, do the NFL's best clubs reside going into the new campaign? Which divisions figure to be up for grabs? And which ones might be hardest to pry away from reigning champions?
We combed through all 32 teams -- all eight divisions -- to identify the top projected teams of the 2025 season, then sorted each division from sturdiest to shakiest entering the new year. Here's how we ranked all the reigning division champions, from most likely to retain their crown to most likely to lose it:
