Today ESPN set forth to not just rank teams as they currently look, but to project how good they'll be over the next three seasons. They did that by putting together a panel of three experts - John Clayton, Louis Riddick, and Mike Sando - and have them rate each team on a scale of 0-100 in five categories: roster (excluding quarterback), quarterback, draft, front office and coaching.
After all the results were in, they were able to rank each team by where they project they will perform over the next three years.
Here is how they explain how to categorize their process:
After averaging the results from the panelists, each of the five categories was weighted to create the overall score -- roster (30 percent), quarterback (20 percent), draft (15 percent), front office (15 percent) and coaching (20 percent).