NFL power rankings for Week 2: New MVP challenger puts team in elite company
A trio of legendary quarterbacks opened the season looking like they will be in the MVP hunt again, but a new challenger also emerged.The Bills’ Josh Allen (one MVP), Ravens’ Lamar Jackson (two MVPs) and Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes (two MVPs) put up their standard star performances in Week 1, but the Bears’ Caleb Williams had the most dominant outing of the weekend.Meanwhile, reigning MVP Matthew Stafford of the Rams played like he aged a dozen years during one offseason.So, how do those quarterbacks and their teams stack up in the biggest overreaction week of the season?Here are The Post’s NFL power rankings for Week 2:Something old: Allen threw a go-ahead 34-yard touchdown pass with 1:36 remaining.Something new: The defense actually closed out a win when Greg Rousseau had his second strip sack of the day in a 36-31 victory over the Texans to mark head coach Joe Brady’s debut.
The Bills won in Houston for the first time since 2006.Williams threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more as the Bears scored two touchdowns in every quarter to rout the Panthers 59-37 in the highest-scoring Week 1 game in NFL history.D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai both reached the century mark for a 291-yard, six-touchdown rushing attack.
It was the fourth-most points scored in franchise history.The 49ers’ 27-7 beatdown of the Rams in Australia is being judged as a referendum on travel agendas.Perhaps it’s just further proof that the 49ers, when healthy, are a Super Bowl threat and that Kyle Shanahan has Sean McVay’s number.
Brock Purdy threw for 205 yards and three touchdowns, including one to old friend Deebo Samuel Sr.Disaster struck when Sam Darnold injured his hip on the fifth snap, but the defense answered the bell against the Patriots with three fourth-quarter interceptions, including Josh Jobe’s at the 3-yard line with 26 seconds to go to seal a 13-10 comeback win in the Super Bowl rematch.Drew Lock efficiently threw for 187 yards and a touchdown.Derrick He...