A lot of sportswriters believe that on the eve of the next regular season, the previous Super Bowl winner should — by default — be the NFL’s No. 1 team. But as we take a look at where the Kansas City Chiefs stand in our first sampling of 2021 power rankings, we learn that not every sportswriter believes this is true.
Here’s our Week 1 sampling:
Andy Reid is old school, and so it was that Patrick Mahomes was one of the few established starting quarterbacks in the league to see extended preseason action.