With six weeks of the 2024 NFL regular season over, the pretenders and contenders are starting to take shape, and the Los Angeles Rams are coming off a bye with reinforcements set to arrive in short order.
We polled the Pro Football Network staff to generate the latest version of our consensus Week 7 NFL Power Rankings. Scroll down for our take on the Rams, along with where teams rank above and behind them.
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Where Do the Los Angeles Rams Rank in Our Week 7 NFL Power Rankings?
24) Los Angeles Rams (1-4, Last Week: 24)
The beat-up Rams should benefit from the early bye as much as anyone, and they are as good a bet as anyone to move up these power rankings in rather short order.
Cooper Kupp is expected to rejoin the team this week with the Raiders coming to town, their first five-game stretch that could see this team win four times (Raiders-Vikings-Seahawks-Dolphins-Patriots). The offense figures to trend up, but if the Aaron Donald-less defense doesn’t improve (dead last in total EPA), it may not matter.
The middle class of the NFC has proven to be ordinary up to this point, leaving the door open for a team like this if they can plug a few holes coming out of the bye.
Teams Above the Rams in PFN’s Power Rankings
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21) Arizona Cardinals (2-4, Last Week: 16)
For the third time in six weeks, the Cardinals allowed 34-plus points. Their offense has the potential to be explosive when healthy (Marvin Harrison Jr. is currently banged up), but this defense puts them in a position to need to be close to perfect, and that’s not a sustainable way of winning games.
That said, with the Chargers and Dolphins up next, this could be a .500 team in short order. This is a fun team, and without much in the way of potent offenses left on the schedule, this team could be more successful than our power ranking suggests.
22) Indianapolis Colts (3-3, Last Week: 23)
The Colts have won three of four games and have seen six or fewer points decide every game this season. Without an elite unit on either side, this team will have to show well in these hotly-contested games, and Joe Flacco has proved to be the more stable option under center for those spots.
Anthony Richardson was the emergency QB for Week 6 and seems more likely than not to assume the starting role next week against the Dolphins. With a struggling run defense, this defense will need to get better if they want to remain in the playoff mix.
After the Dolphins next week, they play the Texans, Vikings, and Bills in succession – if they can’t develop consistency on the defensive end, they won’t have to worry about continuing to win close games.
23) Denver Broncos (3-3, Last Week: 21)
Snapped is Denver’s three-game winning streak, but they could rebound in short order with games against the Derek Carr-less Saints on Thursday and the Panthers the following Sunday.
The mission of this season is clear, and it’s to develop Bo Nix. If he shows enough to be considered the centerpiece of this rebuild, Sean Payton might be onto something. In the short term, the concussion to Patrick Surtain takes away from the primary strength of this team. This team is .500 through six weeks – they’d be fortunate to go .500 the rest of the way.
Teams Below the Rams in PFN’s Power Rankings
25) Miami Dolphins (2-3, Last Week: 26)
The Dolphins are attempting to stay afloat until Tua Tagovailoa can come back, and a win in New England before their Week 6 bye allowed them to do just that. This team is trying to shorten games with the league’s highest rush rate over expectation, but that will be a dangerous way to live with three explosive offenses on tap (Colts-Cardinals-Bills).
This team won 11 of its first 15 games last season and could close the season in style if at full strength. That said, the team it is currently fielding isn’t very competitive, and we have to account for the potential that this is the version of the Dolphins that plays the remainder of 2024.
26) New York Giants (2-4, Last Week: 25)
The Giants made things interesting against the Bengals in Week 6, yet New York just didn’t have enough firepower to win. While New York’s stout defensive front gave Joe Burrow and the Bengals plenty of problems, they eventually ran out of gas late in the fourth quarter.
New York’s comeback attempt was halted by kicker Greg Joseph, who missed two crucial field goals on Sunday night. Now the Giants will attempt to turn things around against the Eagles in a divisional matchup in Week 7, the start of a three-game stretch (Steelers and Commanders after that) that could position them for an early pick in April.
27) Las Vegas Raiders (2-4, Last Week: 27)
That Week 2 win in Baltimore might as well have been a decade ago, as the Raiders haven’t cleared 20 points since, losing three of four in the process.
Points will be hard to come by for this team, no matter who is under center. Over the next two months, they have two meetings with the Chiefs, one with the Bengals, Buccaneers, Falcons, and a Dolphins team that might have Tua Tagovailoa back (Week 11).
Maxx Crosby is great, but this team has very little support. It is likely to be picked in the top 10 in the draft this spring.
