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Catching Up, Part 2: NFL’s biggest movers since FebruaryWe brought you up to speed on college football yesterday, so we’re hitting the pro game today. Here’s Jacob Robinson:Our pre-training camp NFL Power Rankings went live earlier this week, with the most popular comment being this:💬 “Remember, if your team is ranked too low, it’s not because the author hates them. It’s because the author hates you.”That made me laugh. It also got me curious. Who did our Power Rankings authors hate at the end of 2025? What has changed since?So I went back to our end-of-season Power Rankings, published not long after the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, and compared where each team sat in those rankings to our pre-training camp update. Three things stood out to me:
Seahawks down from No. 1 to … 5. Seattle returns 10 of 11 offensive starters, the core of the league’s top defense and a defensive mastermind at head coach. That’s the good news. The bad? The Seahawks lost running back Kenneth Walker III (the Super Bowl MVP signed with the Chiefs), and coveted offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak, now coaching the Raiders.
