What are the must-watch games this week? With the help of ESPN’s Matchup Quality metric, which utilizes ESPN's Football Power Index to rank games (on a 0-to-100 scale) based on how good each team is and how close the game is expected to be, we determined the best and worst games of Week 1.
1. Panthers at Broncos
Thursday (8:30 p.m. ET, NBC)
Matchup quality: 73 out of 100
FPI win projection: Broncos, 57 percent
This rematch of Super Bowl 50 will look a lot different than the game seven months ago. Peyton Manning, Brock Osweiler, Malik Jackson and Danny Trevathan are gone from Denver’s Super Bowl-winning squad, while the defending NFC champions must replace the majority of their feared secondary.