NFL Power Rankings: Browns hit top 10 via free agency/trades
- By Elliot Harrison
- NFL.com Analyst
- Published: March 19, 2019 at 10:49 a.m.
- Updated: March 20, 2019 at 12:08 p.m.
Forget how the dominoes fell in free agency -- where do the teams stand now?
The initial wave of the open signing period started before it
officially started, then hit a crescendo at the end of Day 1 on Wednesday. By Friday,
Ryan Tannehill getting traded drew a collective yawn. When the free agency frenzy starts with such a bang, subsequent transactions inevitably get reduced to a thud. The mind can only be blown so many times before it turns to mush.
In that flurry of early trades and signings were a few social-media busters, like OBJ relocating to CLE and Le'Veon taking his mixtape to NYC. But don't sleep on the smaller, less-covered transactions. We didn't.
Some teams improved a rung or three, others were worse for the wear. Still others were worse for the
financial wear, but are making a run at winning now. (Think: The Jags and their new Super Foles quarterback.)
A week after the marketplace maelstrom, now is as good a time as any to reorder the whole lot. Below you will find your team's significant moves covered, or exposed. Reveal your take to me:
@HarrisonNFL is the place.
Let the dissension commence!
NOTE: Team movement below reflects changes from the post-Super Bowl LIII Power Rankings.
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RANK 12
TEXANS
Previous rank: No. 12
Forgive
Texans fans if they want to fast-forward to January to see if their team will ever make it out of the early rounds of the playoffs. Winning nine, 10 or even 11 games just isn't that much fun if, after sitting through the draft, minicamp updates, training camp "diaries," preseason matchups that cost full price to see but don't feature anybody playing, and the regular season, you just end up seeing your team lose to the other guys,
21-7, when it counts. Will this be another version of the almost-championship-caliber
Texans team? Honey Badger,
Kareem Jackson and
Kevin Johnson no longer roam Houston's secondary. In their stead are
Tashaun Gipson and
Bradley Roby, who are more than capable. So the
Texans aren't particularly better or worse at this stage. If we were to blink our eyes
like Barbara Eden and grant the
Texans a need filled, though, it would be a mammoth, hearty tackle who keeps
Calais Campbell and every other AFC South monster off
Deshaun Watson's tail all afternoon.