Tag Archives: 2025 NFL season

NFL Rookies

NFL All-Rookie Team 2025/26:

The NFL playoffs just kicked off with a thrilling Wildcard weekend, which I probably couldn’t even summarize in comprehensive enough fashion for an article. Instead, this is the time for me to reflect on the regular season and this rookie class in particular.

What I did here is put together a full offense and defense, along with six backups each, basically at every position, and a foursome of special teamers. Based on trying to put the best 11 players out there, I opted for 12 personnel (meaning one running back and two tight-ends) on offense and nickel personnel (five defensive backs) on defense.

Please bear in mind that this is purely based on the regular season, and while I’ll mention it specifically on a few occasions, I considered rookies who played 200+ snaps.

Let’s introduce the squad:

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NFL Weekly Preview

How to watch NFL week 18 of 2025:

The final week of the 2025/26 regular season is upon us, and there’s a lot to still be decided as we think ahead to the NFL playoffs. Instead of previewing one of these games in detail, I decided to map out *how* you should schedule your weekend to keep up with all the action.

So obviously the stand-alone games are part of that, but I’ll also tell how you might want your quad box to look like – or if you even really need one. More importantly, for those three division-deciding matchups, I will share the key element(s) to pay attention to either side of the ball, including personnel/situational tendencies, how to attack their opponents, and what we can learn from they met the first time. Plus, I simply added a final score prediction for every game.

(I didn’t want to always add “tie” as an option, but obviously if a tie were to happen, that would put the teams involved half a game above/below others, depending on how they finish.)

Let’s get into the slate:

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Storylines around the NFL

Discrete developments for surprise NFL playoff teams (2025):

Happy holidays, everyone! As we approach Christmas eve and I didn’t have the time to write a full-fledged article, I thought this was a good time to talk about one critical area of growth for the Jaguars, Patriots, Bears and Panthers, who all won yet again this past weekend and are in the driver’s seats to home playoff games, after being projected to have losing records, based on betting odds. In fact, Carolina is the only one among those that hasn’t secured playoff berth yet.

The purpose of this isn’t to sing the praises of Drake Maye or talk about the Bears defense still leading the league in turnovers forced. Rather, I want to shine light on one piece of the puzzle for each of these teams, which has allowed them to get to this place, but is rarely ever being talked about.


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NFL Power Rankings

NFL Power Rankings heading into the fourth quarter of the 2025 season:

We’re three quarters through the 2025 NFL season and it’s time for one more look at all 32 teams. As always, please bear in mind that these are power *rankings* rather than standings. So you may see one team be listed above another with a better record or even one they’ve already lost to head-to-head at some point – the objective is to weigh them against the rest of the league at large, and how many opponents I’d favor them over. Especially, as playoff seedings are starting to materialize, we’re somewhat looking ahead at who can go the distance, even though this is more meant to be a snapshot of this moment.

I took injuries into account and weighed current form more heavily, while compared to earlier in the season, we have a pretty good picture of what teams are in all three facets of the game. Although you’ll find a variety of statistics and advanced metrics to support my arguments, they’re all primarily grounded in having watched every single matchup up to this opponent, either on the broadcast, the All-22, or both.

Let’s get to the full rankings:

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NFL Film Breakdowns

Justin Herbert has entered the Giant Robot Fighting arena

The discourse around Herbert for the better part of his career has been mostly nauseating to me, but he had yet to establish himself among the top tier of quarterbacks in the NFL. Through two games of 2025, it appears as if he’s unlocked his highest level yet – and we’ll review his tape!

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NFL Weekly Recap

Key takeaways from all 2025 week one NFL games:

We’re one week down for the 2025 NFL season and as always, there was a lot going. Before we even had one snap from scrimmage, we had a star defender ejected for spitting at an opponent in the kickoff game, then a great AFC West quarterback battle in Sao Paulo, a Sunday slate filled with revenge stories, an early game of the year contender on Sunday night and another big-time comeback to close things out on Monday.

Understandably, there’ll be a lot of overreactions from what happened in these opening games, and while we saw more established players participating in preseason, there was still some rust to shake off, and defenses setting the tone in several matchups. Nonetheless, there‘s a lot to take away for now, as we get our first look at new schemes, rookies, units, etc.

I‘m going to outline three takeaways for all 16 games based on watching the broadcasts and/or tape afterwards. Therefore, these will obviously be rather subjective in terms of on what stood out to me, but I’ll try to encapsulate what matters most for individual players and teams here.

Let’s break it all down!

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NFL Predictions

Bold predictions for the 2025 NFL season:

I’ve already previewed the entire 2025 NFL season in detail, but as an annual tradition, the day before we kick things off – here are my six bold predictions for the year!

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NFL Film Breakdowns

NFL Preseason 2025 standouts:

Two weeks of the preseason (plus the Hall of Fame game) are in the books and it’s time to shine some light on players who have popped so far! We’ll go through some clips for three players on offense and defense each!

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NFL Top 100

My NFL Top 100 Players of 2025:

As this year’s official NFL top 100 countdown is nearing a close – even though the network pushed back its release by nearly a month – I’m once again presenting my personal version as an alternative. Any content in this format has a certain level of subjectivity, but I believe in my process of putting the list together more so than how the top 20 lists for all the players polled are merged together.

Just as a reminder of what the criteria is supposed to be – a ranking of the best 100 players heading into 2025, regardless of position. Obviously, it’s challenging to not weigh the value of quarterbacks or adequately compare names with very different jobs/roles. However, the aim here to me always is to find the right balance between what someone provides for their specific team and also project how they would fare on a theoretical average franchise, without a defined scheme.

My one quick disclaimer here is that I didn’t include any players coming off long-term injuries, are dealing with pending suspensions or other factors that’ll affect their performance this upcoming season in significant fashion. That’s why the following names weren’t eligible – Christian McCaffrey, Tyreek Hill, Andrew Thomas, Sam Cosmi, Aidan Hutchinson, Alim McNeill, Christian Wilkins and Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah.

This is what I ended up with:

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NFL Offseason, NFL Predictions

NFL teams most likely to go from worst to first in 2025:

With how intent the NFL is on keeping an even playing field, we see a couple of teams turn things around every year. I ranked the eight teams who just finished last inside their division by how most likely to improve to number one!

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