After all, trying to predict the result of the NFL season in May – the teams did not even hear their first official practices of the new campaign, after all. It is much safer to predict that the champions of the division are not alike than last season.
At least one team won its division the season after missing the playoffs entirely in 53 of the 55 seasons since the merger of AFL-NFL in 1970. In 2024 and 1976, the division winners were all in the eliminatory series the previous campaign. Parity is generally such a powerful force in the NFL that at least one team went from the worst to the first – winning the division the season after having finished last or equally for the end – in the past 23 years. No team did it in 2024, and it was the first time since 2019.
Last season, we had two new division winners. The possible Super Bowl champion, Philadelphia, the Eagles overthrew the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC East, while the Rams of Los Angeles won the NFC West, taking the Crown of the 49ers of San Francisco, which dropped to the bottom of the division. Parity took the 2024 season in the AFC – the four champions of the division were rehearsals.
It’s time for us to take a look at who could be vulnerable this season. I am not Officially predict that the teams more classified below will lose their divisions, but I foresee that the landscape could have changed just enough – for them and their division adversaries – that their future could be a little troubled. This does not mean that these teams who do not repeat themselves as division champions will not reach the playoff series. With three Joker points in each conference, there is room for error.
On the basis of the activity of alignment of the offseason, however, it is an order, 1-8, teams whose understanding of the division title could be loosened in 2025. Without further delay, the most vulnerable prevailing division champion is …
