Going into Week 5, 2026 · Updated
NFL team strength, measured drive by drive
Power rankings, standings and drive efficiency for all 32 teams, rebuilt from every drive after each week's games.
This week in the numbers
Power rankings
Top 5, going into Week 5
- 1
Chicago Bears (up 3 places since last week) - 2
San Francisco 49ers (no change since last week) - 3
Buffalo Bills (down 2 places since last week) - 4
Baltimore Ravens (up 4 places since last week) - 5
New England Patriots (up 13 places since last week)
Division leaders
Standings going into Week 5
Full standings
JAX
KAN
NYG
MIN
CARDrive efficiency leaders
Combined rating going into Week 5; 0 = league average
- Best offense
- Chicago Bears+0.378
- Best defense
Los Angeles Rams+0.090
Latest insights
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A weekly look at the biggest movers in drive efficiency.
Go to InsightsHow it works
MethodologyEvery drive, rated
Each offense and defense is rated on how its drives end (scores, stalls and turnovers), adjusted for opponents and game situation.
Games played out
Those ratings drive a drive-by-drive simulation of each game, run 2,000 times.
Rankings from the same model
Every team plays a league-average opponent; the power rankings sort teams by how often they win.
Research preview
Player tracking
We're researching player tracking to measure what box scores can't: time to throw, pass-rush pressure and receiver separation. Here is one anonymized play from that pipeline.
- Time to throw
- 3.0 s
- Target separation
- 11.4 yd
- Routes run
- 5 (median 4.1 yd open)
- Nearest rusher at throw
- 4.5 yd
Sample output from our tracking pipeline on a single pass play, measured at 10 frames per second. Positions are smoothed for display; teams and players are not identified. Separation is the distance to the nearest defender when the ball is thrown.
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