1 seed in the AFC by virtue of defeating teams like Buffalo and Kansas City early in the season and upsetting the 49ers on Thursday Night Football after falling behind 10-0 at halftime. Highest-graded player: S Kevin Byard (90.5) Still, as 3.5-point underdogs to the Bills this week, they are getting betting-market support, with punters not willing to fade Bill Belichick at this time of year. After spending some time atop the AFC during the latter parts of the season, losses to the Colts, Bills and Dolphins revealed warts that have people less bullish on them than many AFC teams coming into mid-January.
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Mac Jones, the last quarterback taken in the 2021 first round, was easily the most valuable rookie passer and made full use of the Pats' spendy offseason. Highest-graded player: RB Damien Harris (87.5) The fact that a mostly off-the-ball linebacker could earn this distinction shows how much of an outlier he is, and he’ll have to continue to be such if the Cowboys want to make their first NFC championship game since 1995. Micah Parsons, the Cowboys' first-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, made up for sitting out his entire final year at Penn State by becoming the most valuable linebacker in the NFL, his 0.52 WAR finishing second to only Mac Jones among rookies. Highest-graded player: G Zack Martin (94.2)
After a white-hot start, quarterback Matthew Stafford ended up tied for the league lead in interceptions with 17 and will have to be on his best behavior in the playoffs to earn his first career postseason win. In all, they fielded three of the six most valuable non-quarterbacks in football in Aaron Donald (first), Cooper Kupp (tied second) and Jalen Ramsey (sixth). The Rams are one of the most enigmatic teams in the league, as their “stars and scrubs” approach has largely worked. Highest-graded player: DI Aaron Donald (93.6) He’ll have to be 2020 Josh Allen for the Bills to make their first Super Bowl since 1993. Josh Allen’s PFF passing grade fell by 10 points, his completion percentage fell by six points, his yards per attempt average fell by one yard and his passer rating dropped 15 points. Some of this was weather-induced, but they also played one of the easiest schedules in all of football. While the demise of the Bills’ rushing attack was overblown, the offense was less efficient in 2021 than in 2020.
Highest-graded player: QB Josh Allen (86.5) Quarterback Tom Brady led the NFL with almost 5.0 wins above replacement during the regular season, and the Bucs were the first team in NFL history to win over 70% of their regular-season games while throwing passes on more than 65% of their downs. The Bucs limped to the end of the regular season without Chris Godwin and Antonio Brown at wide receiver, earning the No. Highest-graded player: QB Tom Brady (92.0) Their biggest weakness is that they lack downstream targets in the passing game after superstar wide receiver Davante Adams, who is tied for first at the wide receiver position in PFF WAR at 0.78. The Packers enter the NFC playoffs with a bye for the third straight year, and they will get there with the benefit of home-field advantage for the second consecutive year. Highest-graded player: WR Davante Adams (92.7) Quarterback Patrick Mahomes had a down year by his lofty standards and finished the regular season with about as many big-time throws (23) as turnover-worthy plays (22) as defenses adjusted to his explosiveness with more two-high looks. The Chiefs entered the year as the favorite and finished it second to Green Bay in terms of Super Bowl odds. Highest-graded player: C Creed Humphrey (91.4) Rankings & Projections | WR/CB Matchup Chart | NFL & NCAA Betting Dashboards | NFL Player Props Tool | NFL & NCAA Power Rankings We have also featured PFF's AWS-powered simulations and PFF player grades, along with some analysis on their 2021 season and 2022 outlook from the perspective of the betting market.
The rankings are based on PFF ELO Ratings. The Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers finish as the top-ranked teams in PFF's NFL power rankings, while there is nowhere to go but up for the 32nd-ranked Jacksonville Jaguars. The playoff picture is set, the NFL draft order is three-quarters of the way finalized and the NFL head-coaching search is well underway, so let's take one last look at the PFF Power Rankings to see where all 32 NFL teams stand. We've come to the end of the 2021 NFL regular season.