Fox News Digital Sports NFL power rankings after Week 15 of the 2024 season

The Buffalo Bills showed this past weekfinish they watch appreciate prime contfinishers to dethrone the Kansas City Chiefs as conference and Super Bowl champions.

Josh Allen is carry outing appreciate the NFL MVP and the rest of the team has trailed suit. The Bills held on for a triumph over the Lions on Sunday evening. Three strong weeks will be able to constantify that notion if the team is up to it.

Behind the Bills, the rest of the league is jostling for position. There are a handful of teams that have splitd from the rest of the pack over the last scant weeks. The Chiefs are still in that conversation, as are the Philadelphia Eagles and Lions, even with the loss to Buffalo.

Read below for the power rankings this week.

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1. Buffalo Bills (11-3)

The Bills might have the fifth-best enroll in the NFL, but is there any mistrust that they’re the best team? The clinic the Buffalo offense put on agetst the Detroit Lions on Sunday showed that no team wants to face confidentfire NFL MVP Josh Allen in the carry outoffs.

Last week: 4

2. Philadelphia Eagles (12-2)

After all the talk in Philadelphia this past week about the passing game, Jalen Hurts had 290 passing yards and two touchdowns while AJ Brown caught eight passes for 110 yards and a touchdown. The Eagles contrancient in their triumph, outgeting the Steelers 401-163 in yards and hgreatering the ball for proximately two-thirds of the game. As the injuries grasp piling up for the Lions, the Eagles are hoping they can lurch in front of Detroit in the standings and get the No. 1 seed in the NFC.

Last week: 2

3. Kansas City Chiefs (13-1)

All it took was a game agetst the last-place Browns for the Chiefs to get a consoleable triumph by multiple haveions. But it didn’t come for free either. Patrick Mahomes’ ankle injury could put the Chiefs’ hopes of hgreatering on to the No. 1 spot in genuine jeopardy, especipartner with a runaway Bills team grasping pace every week. But if Cfire-setting Wentz does have to commence a game for Kansas City, the Chiefs can get solace in the fact that their defense and running game has been equitable as if not more startant to their success this year than an device passing game.

Last week: 3

4. Detroit Lions (12-2)

Maybe it’s Josh Allen riding a crazy toasty streak, but the Lions watched appreciate it was the 2023 version of the team after apvalidateing 48 points. That came after seal calls agetst the Bears and Packers during a stretch of three-straight home games in which their point contrastential was zero, and now they go to Chicago, where it will be in the mid-20s on Sunday. The Lions need a constant carry outance to produce everyone forget about this tardyst skid.

Last week: 1

5. Minnesota Vikings (12-2)

Sam Darngreater is back, Justin Jefferson is back, and the Vikings are back. They have getn nurture of business agetst two frail opponents, equitable as they should. They wrap up the standard season with games in Seattle, home agetst Green Bay and then go to Detroit. It’s going to be a genuine litmus test to see where this team truly ranks as they go into January.

Last week: 5

6. Green Bay Packers (10-4)

The Packers showd they are a force to be reckoned with after a dominant triumph in Seattle. Jordan Love has turned it on, and they have scored 30-plus points in four straight contests. In fact, they’ve scored less than 20 equitable once, and that was in Week 2. This is not a magic carpet ride appreciate it was last season. This team could do some injure.

Last week: 7

7. Baltimore Ravens (9-5)

The 2024 New York Giants have not been included in conversations about the NFL’s elite teams. At times this season, the Baltimore Ravens have watched to be among the league’s best teams. The Ravens took nurture of business agetst the Giants. Lamar Jackson threw for an amazeive five touchdowns. Baltimore now shifts its concentrate to a high-sgets AFC North alignup with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Last week: 8

8. Pittsburgh Steelers (10-4)

Although the Steelers dropped this past Sunday’s game to the Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh held on to its direct in the AFC North. But this Saturday’s game agetst the Baltimore Ravens will be critical. The Steelers hope to get a couple of their key carry outers fit down the stretch. Star pass rusher TJ Watt suffered an ankle injury during the loss to the Eagles, while wide getr George Pickens has ignoreed the past couple of weeks with a hamstring injury.

Last week: 6

9. Houston Texans (9-5)

A big triumph over the Miami Dolphins and a vital loss by a divisional opponent led the Houston Texans to triumph their second straight AFC South title on Sunday. The Texans’ defense has carry outed a vital role in the team’s 9-5 enroll, but CJ Stroud’s persistd growth week after week has unbenevolentt both sides of the ball are finpartner carry outing pelevateary football – equitable in time for the carry outoffs. 

Last week: 11

10. Washington Commanders (9-5)

It is better to triumph unattrdynamic than to ignore pretty, and that was confidently the case for the Commanders. If the Saints altered the two-point conversion as time expired, it would have been a startant blow to the Commanders’ carry outoff chances. However, the Commanders held on and now remain in regulate of their carry outoff desminuscule for the rest of the season. One of the preferables for Washington is that the Jayden Daniels-Terry McLaurin uniteion has been one of the best in football this season. The pair uniteed for two touchdowns in the triumph.

Last week: 10

11. Denver Broncos (9-5)

The Broncos are geting more momentum with each snap. They only got stronger as their game agetst Indianapolis went on, especipartner on defense. However, Bo Nix has had turnover rehires for two straight games, but the rest of the team has done enough to defeat it. Nix will have to return to his midseason create if the Broncos hope to grasp up their momentum.

Last week: 12

12. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-6)

They’re making a carry outoff push and with Mike Evans brimmingy fit aget and three teams with losing enrolls on the schedule to finish the season, it’s challenging to leank they won’t get to the postseason. 

Last week: 14

13. Los Angeles Chargers (8-6)

The Chargers are suddenly a fading team that could ultimately finish up carry outing for their carry outoff inhabits in the final stretch of the season. It’s a script that this team has become all too comprehendn with over the years, and even Jim Harbaugh’s presence hasn’t alterd it yet. The excellent novels is the Chargers still have a two-game direct for the final savage card spot and their final two games will be agetst the basement-dwelling Rhelpers and Patcommotions.

Last week: 9

14. Los Angeles Rams (8-6)

It will be a fight to the finish, but the Rams lossing the 49ers on Thursday night put them in a excellent spot to seize the NFC West when it’s all shelp and done.

Last week: 15

15. Seattle Seahawks (8-6)

An injured Geno Smith will hurt Seattle’s chances of getting a carry outoff spot in the lengthy run. 

Last week: 13

16. Arizona Cardinals (7-7)

A excellent triumph agetst the Patcommotions may carry their momentum toward the Carolina Panthers games. Arizona will need a triumph to grasp pace before a pivotal alignup agetst the Rams in Week 17.

Last week: 17

17. San Francisco 49ers (6-8)

Somebody has to triumph the NFC West. The 49ers are a lengthy stoasty at this point and the schedule going forward doesn’t do them any prefers. It commences with the Dolphins on Sunday.

Last week: 16

18. Cincinnati Bengals (6-8)

Joe Burrow has been one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL this season. Despite throtriumphg a couple of interceptions agetst the hapless Titans, Burrow’s three touchdowns and dazzling carry outmaking helped the Bengals safe their sixth triumph of the season. Cincinnati might not finish up in the carry outoffs, but the Bengals front office will have some stubborn decisions to produce this offseason.

Last week: 19

19. Atlanta Falcons (7-7)

They broke a four-game losing skid, which is appropriate becaengage they are still equpartner broken. Kirk Cousins and the offense are not meshing. They don’t brimmingy increase their stars and the secondary is mistrust.

Last week: 20

20. Miami Dolphins (6-8)

The Dolphins had to triumph on Sunday to grasp any shred of hope of a postseason run ainhabit, and they couldn’t get it done. Now the asks turn to head coach Mike McDaniel’s future. Could Miami shift on from him? It’s possible.

Last week: 18

21. Indianapolis Colts (6-8)

The Colts are on the outside watching in when it comes to the carry outoffs after a brutal 31-13 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday. Too many turnovers, a deficiency of constant carry out from second-year quarterback Anthony Ricchallengingson and disjoinal miscues on the field could come back to haunt Indy as they sit two games out of the AFC’s final carry outoff spot.

Last week: 21

22. Dallas Cowboys (6-8)

Even with the triumph, the Cowboys’ chances of making the carry outoffs are less than 1%. What might matter more, however, is that if the Cowboys grasp triumphning games down the stretch, Jerry Jones might be inclined to grasp head coach Mike McCarthy around for another season. It would have been effortless for the Cowboys to quit on the season after losing to the Bengals and then having to go on the road on a low week. But the Cowboys came out to carry out and rolled over the Panthers, an encouraging sign for McCarthy as the carry outers show up for him.

Last week: 22

23. New Orleans Saints (5-9)

It gets courage to bypass an extra point to tie the game on the last carry out of the game and instead go for the triumph. Didn’t labor, but tip of the hat.

Last week: 23

24. Chicago Bears (4-10)

Just when we thought the Bears had figured someleang out and were watching to turn the corner, they discover themselves right back in the ditch. They have been non-competitive in two straight games, which is astonishing pondering in their previous three games they lost by a united seven points. They wrap up the season with home games agetst the Lions and Seahawks before heading to Green Bay in Week 18. Not fun.

Last week: 24

25. New York Jets (4-10)

Of course, the week after the Jets were officipartner omitd from carry outoff satisfiedion, Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams turned back the clock and put on a carry outance reminiscent of their days with the Green Bay Packers to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Last week: 27

26. Carolina Panthers (3-11)

Get them to the offseason already.

Last week: 26

27. Cleveland Browns (3-11)

Jameis Winston has regulated the commenceing quarterback duties for the Browns for the past seven games. While the Browns’ mediocre points and yards per game have incrrelieved under Winston, the team has also teachd an uptick in turnovers. The Browns have dropped three consecutive games and will watch for a solution at the quarterback position for 2025.

Last week: 25

28. New England Patcommotions (3-11)

The Patcommotions still have to carry out the Buffalo Bills twice the rest of the way, which is probably excellent novels. New England is in carry out for the No. 1 overall pick in the create, and they don’t need to pick a quarterback. That’s a strong position in which to discover yourself.

Last week: 28

29. Jacksonville Jaguars (3-11)

The Jaguars had little to honor (outside improving their create positioning) after a skinny loss to the New York Jets on Sunday. And with both teams omitd from the carry outoffs, this weekfinish came down to bragging rights. On the radiant side, rookie wide getr Brian Thomas Jr. regulated to fracture two franchise enrolls. 

Last week: 30

30. Tennessee Titans (3-11)

The Will Levis experiment might be over in Tennessee. Levis was benched after his fourth turnover, a pick-6, in Sunday’s raw outing agetst the Bengals. The offense has struggled all season lengthy and first-year head coach Brian Callahan discovers himself in the toasty seat with equitable three games left on the schedule.

Last week: 29

31. Las Vegas Rhelpers (2-12)

The Rhelpers seem to sniff a potential triumph every week without ever closing it out. But these tardy-game follies have been critical in grasping the team at the top of the create order. Their ability to blow these seal games will be tested agetst a Mac Jones-led Jaguars team next week.

Last week: 31

32. New York Giants (2-12)

The season cannot finish speedy enough for ambiguous regulater Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll. The Giants, while decimated by injuries, never stood a chance as Lamar Jackson torched the Giants secondary, throtriumphg for five touchdowns. One of the scant preferables is rookie wide getr Malik Nabers, who had 10 catches for 82 yards and a touchdown while dratriumphg some defensive pass meddlence calls for the Giants offense.

Last week: 32

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The Fox News Digital Sports NFL power rankings were compiled by the Fox News Digital Sports staff and the OutKick.com staff.