Lions’ big win almost fully restores them to 2024 heights.
Both LA teams now reside in top five.
What did Chiefs’ first win of 2025 season do for their standing?
NFL power rankings entering Week 4 of the 2025 season (previous rank in parentheses):
1. Philadelphia Eagles (1): They’re not blowing anyone’s doors off. Not yet, anyway. But one surefire sign of a champion, one that’s won 12 in a row at home and 19 of 20 overall going back to last season, is the ability to win in multiple ways − and Philly finally broke the seal on its passing game and leveraged timely special teams plays to overcome a 19-point deficit against a legit Rams squad Sunday. Also, doesn’t hurt to have a 336-pound defensive lineman who can rev to nearly 20 mph. Next up? The Kryptonite Bucs, who have beaten Philly in six of their past seven meetings.
2. Buffalo Bills (2): They’re favored by 16½ points, per BetMGM, to beat New Orleans this Sunday in what could be the lock of the year − a 14th straight regular-season victory at Highmark Stadium.
3. Los Angeles Chargers (6): The Bolts just became the third team since realignment in 2002 to open a season 3-0 by sweeping all of their divisional opponents. Next up, a two-game detour through the NFC East − starting with the winless Giants on the road.
6. Detroit Lions (10): They don’t appear to be lacking for much since a Week 1 face plant at Lambeau. The offense is once again in high gear − 90 points over the last two games − while Monday night was also a reminder that DE Aidan Hutchinson is back for a team that allegedly lost too many coaches in the offseason.
7. Baltimore Ravens (4): Officially, another slow (1-2) start for a team that might be two Derrick Henry fumbles away from being 3-0. Still, there’s definitely defensive concern for a unit that was shoved around by Detroit amid the absence of injured Pro Bowl mainstays Kyle Van Noy and DL Nnamdi Madubuike.
8. Washington Commanders (7): Coach Dan Quinn is something of a microcosm for this team right now − bloodied but unbowed, all the more important as the Commanders prepare to hit the road for four of the next five weeks.
10. Kansas City Chiefs (8): They got off the mat, albeit fairly unimpressively against the Giants, but do get to play at Arrowhead four of the next five weeks.
13. San Francisco 49ers (12): A 3-0 start is obviously nice. But when you’re winning by an average of 3.3 points then lose Pro Bowl DE Nick Bosa (torn ACL) for the duration? It’s got the potential to become fool’s gold awfully fast.
19. Chicago Bears (26): Sunday was sophomore QB Caleb Williams’ best day as a pro. It was also the first time in 20 NFL starts that he wasn’t sacked − all the more remarkable given he should have been wrecked while executing one of the worst flea flickers of all time.
20. Cincinnati Bengals (18): We knew they were likely to struggle without injured QB Joe Burrow. But falling into a 45-point hole type struggling? To a team also without its QB1? Ominous.
24. Las Vegas Raiders (23): Next we find out what all that intel Tom Brady collected on this weekend’s opponent, the Bears, is worth − because the Silver and Black kept the deficit inside three TDs on Sunday after TB12 saw Washington earlier in the month.
26. Cleveland Browns (31): As Shedeur Sanders’ father, Deion (Dion?), famously uttered, ‘If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good.’ Props to the ‘Alpha Dawgs’ (presented by DUDE Wipes) who managed to upset the mighty Pack despite their appearance Sunday.
28. Dallas Cowboys (21): No Parsons. No CeeDee Lamb for the foreseeable future. No ability to stop other teams defensively. But Jerry Jones thinks this is a playoff team. Naturally.
29. Miami Dolphins (32): They’re in the midst of an 11-day interlude between games after putting up a fight in Buffalo last Thursday. With the Jets, Panthers and Browns among their next four opponents, hardly time to throw in the towel.
30. New York Giants (25): Their starting backfield could have been Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley. Their starting backfield could be Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo − and, after Tuesday’s verdict to bench Russell Wilson, the G-Men are now at least halfway to that rookie pairing.
31. Tennessee Titans (29): Will this be two years in a row that a head coach is fired midseason despite his team just spending the No. 1 draft pick on a QB? The Titans are 3-17 under Brian Callahan, and the Nashville natives were quite restless during Sunday’s 21-point loss to Indy.