My AFC North Positional Rankings post 25 Draft

AFC North Positional Rankings:


Front Office:

1. Ravens

2. Steelers

3. Bengals

4. Browns


Coaching:

1. Ravens

2. Pittsburgh

3. Browns

4. Bengals


QB:

1. Ravens

2. Bengals

3. Steelers (Assuming we get Rodgers)

4. Browns


WR:

1. Bengals

2. Steelers

3. Ravens

4. Browns


OL:

1. Ravens (Inferior in talent but coaching is better)

2. Steelers

3. Browns

4. Bengals


TE:

1. Ravens

2. Steelers

3. Browns

4. Bengals


RB:

1. Ravens

2. Steelers

3. Browns

4. Bengals


DL: (Includes Edge)

1. Steelers

2. Browns

3. Ravens

4. Bengals


ILB:

1. Ravens (Steelers have better depth and #2 but Ravens have better #1 and coaching)

2. Steelers

3. Browns

4. Bengals


CB:

1. Browns

2. Ravens

3. Steelers

4. Bengals


Saf:

1. Ravens (Steelers have better depth and #2 but Ravens have better #1 and coaching)

2. Steelers

3. Browns

4. Bengals


ST:

1. Steelers

2. Bengals

3. Browns

4. Ravens (Assuming Tuckers is suspended)


Depth:

1. Steelers

2. Ravens

3. Browns

4. Bengals

https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/depth/_/name/pit/pittsburgh-steelers
https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/depth/_/name/bal/baltimore-ravens
https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/depth/_/name/cle/cleveland-browns
https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/depth/_/name/cin

 

Front office:

1. Bengals, just because they solved the QB position and were in SB most recently with that QB.
2. Steelers, always ahead of the Ravens
3. Ravens
4. Browns

 

The Bengals front office don't deserve to be ahead of the ravens and even the steelers....Their defense is way below average.We can debate if Burrow is a better QB that Lamar or not but I can't gave credit to the bengals for Burrow since they had the first overall pick in 2020 and every teams that needed a QB would have taken Burrow as the first overall pick...The Ravens deserve a lot more credit with the way they drafted Lamar in 2018

 

It’s funny because almost all of the Ravens fans I know think their coaching and front office is ****.

 

This.


Just because Joe Burrow went to a Super Bowl doesn't automatically mean the Bengals have the best Front Office in the NFL. Kudos to the Bengals for nabbing and extending both Chase and Higgins but that Defense is nearly non existent. Trey Hendrickson leaving would compound things even more. Relying on Myles Murphy and Shemar Stewart, two very toolys but very raw young players, isn't ideal in the AFC North and much less the AFC as a whole.

 

Great list OP.


Agreed on the Coaching; an underappreciated yet crucial aspect of positional rankings. Talent is only that; talent. To make talent into something truly special, you need a teacher that can maximize that ability.

 

It’s interesting that the OP gives the edge on defense frequently to the Ravens “because of better coaching” when the Steelers outranked them in many of the defensive categories last year.

Lots of reasons for that obviously, and I’m as frustrated as anyone with the unimaginative defensive schemes, but I’d be wary of handing Baltimore superior coaching across the board

 

The ravens were awful on defense(their pass defense) in the first 10 games last year but they were much better after that...I just can't trust our defense in big game until proven otherwise

 

The Ravens Coaching Staff isn't something that should make people wary. For my money, it is the best Front Office in the AFC; an AFC that includes the likes of Kansas City and Buffalo.


Last Season was Zach Orr's first ever as a DC. Kyle Hamilton was simply out of position; the entire Ravens Defense feeling his missed absence closer to the LOS and in addition to the Deep Half. Week 10 on?! Much, much different story.


Chuck Pagano has a very rock solid tenure as an NFL Coach. Try not to sell him short.


Chuck Smith is arguably the best Pass Rushing Coach in the NFL. Given his track record of Training some of the greatest ever pass rushers over the last decade plus, no other Coach in the NFL holds a candle to him in terms of his tutelage of how to get to the QB.


Travelle Wharton can easily be another teams Offensive Line Coach if he wanted to given his Track Record. To have him as an Assistant Offensive Line Coach?! Man...


The list goes on and on. Baltimore's Coaching Staff alone is nuts. Their whole Front Office is unreal. Outside of the Eagles, there isn't a better Front Office in the NFL.

 

The Ravens brought back former DC Dean Pees to help with their defense last season.