| Rnk | LW* | Team | Record | Comments |
| 1. | 1. | Minnesota Vikings | 5-0 | Bradford returns to Philly off the bye. |
| 2. | 2. | New England Patriots | 5-1 | Cruising after return of Brady, face Steelers at the perfect time sans Roethlisberger. |
| 3. | 5. | Seattle Seahawks | 4-1 | Overcame some defensive confusion with Chancellor out injured. |
| 4. | 6. | Dallas Cowboys | 5-1 | Dak broke Brady's record of 162 consecutive pass attempts without an interception at the start of a career. The streak came to an end late in the game at 176 when Dak and Witten didn't seem to be on the same page. |
| 5. | 3. | Pittsburgh Steelers | 4-2 | A different, obviously much worse team on the road. Also a much worse team without injured Roethlisberger. Missed an opportunity against a legitimately bad opponent with rest of division also losing. |
| 6. | 4. | Green Bay Packers | 3-2 | Steelers retired the Bumble Bee throwbacks, now they need to hang up the Acme Packers uniforms for good. |
| 7. | 7. | Atlanta Falcons | 4-2 | Remember last year when they won 5 of 6 games to start the season and then collapsed? Should have a tough time losing the division this year with Panthers in free fall. |
| 8. | 8. | Denver Broncos | 4-2 | Last season's Super Bowl champs reeling a bit after a pair of losses. Couldn't have been easy for Kubiak to watch on Thursday night from home due to health issues. |
| 9. | 11. | Buffalo Bills | 4-2 | Undrafted 33 year old journeyman Alexander playing because of an injury to 1st rounder Lawson leads the NFL with 8 sacks. |
| 10. | 12. | Washington Redskins | 4-2 | Reported locker room grumbling about Cousins earlier in the season has gone quiet. |
| 11. | 14. | Kansas City Chiefs | 3-2 | Reid improved to 16-2 after the bye in his head coaching career. |
| 12. | 9. | Oakland Raiders | 4-2 | Road trip to Jacksonville not as easy as it looks with defense struggling. |
| 13. | 10. | Philadelphia Eagles | 3-2 | Hurt by lack of running game, not unexpected regression of rookie Wentz. |
| 14. | 15. | Arizona Cardinals | 3-3 | Arians easily handled his protege Bowles. |
| 15. | 16. | Houston Texans | 4-2 | Struggling Osweiler returns to Denver with somewhat surprisingly the same record as his former team. |
| 16. | 19. | New York Giants | 3-3 | Fighting an uphill battle with rest of the division all over .500. |
| 17. | 24. | Detriot Lions | 3-3 | Have won 3 games by a total of 8 points, lost 3 games by a total of 11 points. |
| 18. | 13. | Cincinnati Bengals | 2-4 | Could Lewis still winless in the postseason find himself on the hot seat? |
| 19. | 17. | Baltimore Ravens | 3-3 | Firing Trestman and releasing Forsett didn't help. |
| 20. | 20. | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 2-3 | Had a bye to prepare for cross country trip to Santa Clara. |
| 21. | 21. | Jacksonville Jaguars | 2-3 | Offense hibernated for 3 quarters at Soldier Field before awakening in the 4th quarter to score 17 points and beat the Bears by a point. |
| 22. | 25. | New Orleans Saints | 2-3 | Brees to Cooks torched the abysmal Panthers secondary. |
| 23. | 23. | Tennessee Titans | 3-3 | Murray looks like he did with the Cowboys, not the the Eagles. |
| 24. | 18. | Los Angeles Rams | 3-3 | Losers of a pair to return to .500, the natural state of a Fisher coached team. |
| 25. | 29. | San Diego Chargers | 2-4 | Under extreme fire McCoy had his team ready to play at home on a short work week. |
| 26. | 22. | Indianapolis Colts | 2-4 | Gore became the franchises first back to rush for triple digits in 56 ganes, last was Ballard in '12. |
| 27. | 30. | Miami Dolphins | 2-4 | Ajayi shredded the Steelers for 204 rushing yards, had 158 total yards from scrimmage for the season entering the game. |
| 28. | 26. | Carolina Panthers | 1-5 | The nightmare continues even after return of Newton, Stewart. |
| 29. | 27. | New York Jets | 1-5 | Should they give Geno a look? Petty? Fitzgerald has been predictably awful after last season's career year. Sadly for the only team carrying 4 QBs on the roster the other options unlikely to be better. |
| 30. | 28. | Chicago Bears | 1-5 | Not exactly sure what Fox sees in Hoyer, not that Cutler is really any better. |
| 31. | 31. | San Francisco 49ers | 1-5 | Kaepernick was not the answer. Is anyone surprised? |
| 32. | 32. | Cleveland Browns | 0-6 | Barring injury will stick with Kessler over McCown which actually makes sense. |
*Last week's ranking