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Welcome to the week 10 Official NFL Power Rankings! By this point last season there were nine teams with a 6-3 or better record. At the same point in 2020? 15 teams. Which actually belong? 32/32 reporting

#		Team	Δ	Record	Comment
1.		Chiefs	--	8-1	Chiefs are coming off the bye week headed to Las Vegas looking to avenge the early season loss to the Raiders. There are already a lot of narratives going into this game, with buses being at the center of them, but both teams are going to be motivated under the Sunday Night lights. The Chiefs/Raiders rivalry is back.
2.		Steelers	--	9-0	A solid game against the Bengals. No traps. No underperforming. Just the kind of effort, result, and final score you'd expect to see out of a 9-0 team. That said, this upcoming week is critical because Jacksonville always seems to have Pittsburgh's number and the Jags were surprisingly persistent against a very good Packers team. It's often said teams "look ahead", and the Ravens game on Thanksgiving comes on a short week, just 9 days from now. The Steelers need to simply worry about repeating Sunday's performance so they can get through the old rivalry of the unpredictable Jaguars. To reach 10-0 and face the Ravens, who would love nothing more than deny the Steelers an 11-0 record, has to be the current objective. Jacksonville have showed they can play.
3.		Packers	+2	7-2	The Jags punched the Packers in the mouth but Aaron & Co were able to pull out the victory. A late-McCarthy era team might have sputtered the whole game and lost, but this week both sides of the ball buckled down, figured out what worked and what didn't, and got a win. Run defense is still a concern even with getting Christian Kirksey back, and Tae might be injured once again. Still, a win is a win and onto the Colts.
4.		Saints	--	7-2	The Saints continued their winning ways with a slow chokehold on an under strength 49ers team, but come out of the game with one major worry. The hopes of the season now rest on the shoulders of Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill unless Sean Payton can channel Ge Hong to resurrect Brees. Luckily for the Saints the next four games all feature 3-win teams. Jameis gets the chance to prove himself and find him as beloved by the fanbase as Teddy, or collapse the season and be cast out forever.
5.		Buccaneers	+4	7-3	Nothing like a 544 yard, 46 point outing over a division rival to get a team's confidence back on track, and with the absence of Drew Brees, the Bucs reentered the running for the NFC South. Sitting at a cool 7-3, Tampa Bay has the toughest stretch of schedule ahead with the Rams coming up on MNF followed by the Super Bowl Champion Chiefs. With a wild card appearance looking like the worst case scenario, Bucs fans will be able to breathe a sigh of relief for making the playoffs for the first time in 13 years.
6.		Ravens	-3	6-3	With a depleted receiving corps and a depleted DL... The Ravens will be fiiiiiiiiiine against Derrick Henry, now that they don't have Earl Thomas blocking for him.
7.		Cardinals	+4	6-3	Those are the plays you dreamed might be possible after the Cardinals acquired Hopkins in March. Thank you Bill O'Brien! As big as that finish was, it's imperative the team shows up against Seattle on a short week to compete for the division lead. Can't have a letdown game after all that work.
8.		Bills	-2	7-3	In typical Buffalo fashion, the Bills built up their fan’s hopes and dashed them. Then they rebuilt those hopes. Then within a minute Deandre Hopkins re-dashed them. Sometimes you’re just not supposed to win a football game. The football gods decided Sunday was one of those days for the Bills. 7-3 heading into the bye. BillsMafia will take it.
9.		Dolphins	+1	6-3	The talk before this game was that Justin Herbert would likely do well against the Dolphins tendency to blitz heavy and often, yet the Dolphins defense showed that they're going to dictate the terms of the matchup, and Herbert is just another victim of the innovative pass rush and smothering secondary that Brian Flores has built in Miami. Special mention must go to the special teams as, despite Jason Sanders finally missing his first field goal after a franchise record 22 straight, the Dolphins again demonstrated why they're one of the best special teams units in the league, with great performances in all aspects of their game.
10.		Rams	+4	6-3	That's yet another dominant defensive performance, and the Rams have now allowed just 9 points during the second half in the last five games combined. As long as the offense puts together a reasonably competent performance, the Rams have a shot at anyone.
11.		Colts	+2	6-3	The transition from ex-GM Ryan Grigson to current GM Chris Ballard has paid huge dividends for the Colts. This Colts roster, top to bottom, has as much talent as any during the team's tenure in Indy. The team can count on its squads in all three phases of the game, with a huge blocked punt turning the Tennessee contest on its head. If the offense can maintain some consistency, this team should be a force come January.
12.		Seahawks	-5	6-3	Where to start..... Russ isn't the MVP front runner. Pete would rather trust this defense then go for it on 4th and an inch. But hey, at least we've got a historic defense goin for us. The loss to the Rams was the second straight ugly defeat for the Seahawks, dropping them to 3rd in the NFC West. Thursday's game against the Cardinals isn't a must-win, per se..... but Seattle needs to get right fast.
13.		Raiders	-1	6-3	The Raiders absolutely dominated the Broncos. Week 11, on the other hand, will be tough. Once again the NFL gives the Chiefs a game against the Raiders after a KC bye week. Since 2010 the Chiefs will have played an AFC west opponent 9 times following a KC bye week (6 of those 9 times it has been the Raiders). In that same time span they have played against an AFC west opponent only 3 times following their bye week (0x Raiders, 2x Broncos, 1x Chargers). The Raiders not only have to beat one of the best teams in the league this week, but also one of the most unfair scheduling biases of the past 10 years.
14.		Titans	-6	6-3	The Titans now hold a 2-9 record against Phillip Rivers and are 5-20 against the Colts since 2008. The good start to the year for the Titans is in serious jeopardy as they are on a 1-3 streak since their 5-0 start and the next 3 games for the Titans are all against 6-3 teams.
15.		Browns	--	6-3	Nick Chubb, back from injury, ran it out at the 1 to ice the win. Smart move. Ok, so now that is out of the way, Steelers should be #1. Who are we kidding here? KC still hanging around at the top? The were on a BYE. I say this as a Browns ranker: How have the Steelers, who are on a 9-0 terror, not been ranked 1 for so long?!
16.		Vikings	+2	4-5	Mike Zimmer's ability to take a bunch of rookies, 7th rounders and street free agents and hold any offense to 3.0 yards per play is incredible. Meanwhile, Justin Jefferson leads the league in yards per route run and is making DBs look silly week after week.
17.		Patriots	+8	4-5	Bad weather, good rush defense, solid rush offense - what more can you ask for? The Patriots' season remains alive
18.		Bears	-2	5-5	"So I was watching game tape today and I realized, ever since I started playing, every single week of my play has been worse than the week before it. So that means every single week you see me, that's on the worst week of my life." -The entire Chicago Bears offense.
19.		49ers	-2	4-6	The 49ers took an early lead vs the saints, but that lead vanished as eventually the talent disparity won out. It is a testament to the coaching staff and Shanahan's ability to get players to buy in that the team is continuing to battle every week with so many injuries to key players.
20.		Panthers	-1	3-7	Bless the knees. Teddy made it, even if the Panthers' wheels fell off. From ill-timed interceptions to a rush defense giving up the length of the field at a time, mistakes were made in many phases to a strong divisional rival. A more winnable home game against Detroit lies ahead.
21.		Lions	+5	4-5	A W is a W. Without Kenny Golladay on the field, the Lions were still able to put points on the board in the first half. Unfortunately the offense stagnated, and the defense played down to their opponent. Maybe the game script wanted another clutch Matthew Stafford walk off W? No, the true clutch captain Matt Prater sunk a 59 yard chip for the win. This W belongs to the Lions... and Chase Young.
22.		Falcons	-1	3-6	Raheem better be using this bye week efficiently. With remaining games against Kansas City, Oakland, Tampa (2x), New Orleans (2x), there won't be room for errors Atlanta is known so well for.
23.		Chargers	-3	2-7	Something about Hard Rock Stadium just brings bad tidings to the Chargers. This was the worst loss of the season, and it's very telling to lose to a team in the middle of a rebuild. The Chargers are a better team on paper, but that doesn't matter if the other team just needs to execute for 60 minutes in order to win. Kudos to Brian Flores and the Dolphins, they're moving in the right direction. The same cannot be said for the Chargers. The Jets are not the easy win that they should be when they come to town next week, and Tom Telesco gets ever closer to working with another top 5 pick.
24.		Bengals	--	2-6-1	It was refreshing to have a Bengals vs. Steelers game without the extra stuff that has been going on the last few years. Well, except for Bud Dupree's late hit on Joe Burrow, a hit that threw him into the bench and clearly hampered Burrow's mobility the remainder of the game. It's okay, at least Bengals fans didn't have to listen to Jonathan Vilma claim Joe Burrow can't read a defense for the remainder of the game.
25.		Broncos	-2	3-6	A certain Tomas Kalnoky song comes to mind after Drew Lock's performance on Sunday. The World of Suck goes on and on. From Andrew Mason, the Broncos have had the worst passer rating and TD:INT ratio in the league since 2017. With no end in sight, it appears all-too-likely the Broncos will be hoping back on the QB Carousel for another go-round.
26.		Eagles	-4	3-5-1	Scenario: your team scores a touchdown to make it 17-21 before the extra point, which would bring you within a field goal of a tie game, what would you do? If you answered “get sacked for -7 yards on a failed 2 point conversion” you might be the next head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles!
27.		Giants	+1	3-7	The Giants played good football in all 3 phases of the game on Sunday, which is not a sentence I've been able to utter for a long, long time. Daniel Jones put on a clinic in what was arguably the best game of his young career. James Bradberry deserves all the money we threw at him and then some. Graham Gano and Riley Dixon have magical legs. But by far the most vast improvement in play from early in the season appears to be the Offensive Line. From getting Saquon hit 2-3 yards in the backfield every play to moving guys down the field at will and giving Danny Dimes a clean pocket all afternoon, they've become one of the better units on this team as a whole. All in all, a win heading into the bye week is made that much sweeter by the fact that we finally beat the damn Eagles.
28.		Texans	-1	2-7	big mood
29.		Washington FT	--		Absolutely clutch performance by Chase Young who put the team on his back, committed a boneheaded 15 yard penalty with about 6 seconds left to put The Lions in last second winning field goal range. This team and this culture is committed to losing and time after time they just find a way when the chips are up and all the momentum is on their side.
30.		Cowboys	--	2-7	Despite some worries, the Cowboys made it through the bye week unscathed. The way this year has gone, that counts as a win (but not for determining draft order or the division title).
31.		Jaguars	--	1-8	The Jaguars will not go quietly into the offseason. Putting up a big fuss against the Packers proved futile. However, there does appear to be enough raw talent on the team that it's unlikely the Jaguars lose every game the rest of the season. While still frustrating to watch, the team does have it's moments, like field-length PRTDs. Remember kids, don't out-kick your coverage!
32.		Jets	--	0-9	Once again, the Jets failed to do anything at all this week.

10 weeks are in the books - for most of us, there are only 3 more regular season weeks, and trade deadlines are either just around the corner or have already come and gone. Here in chilly Green Bay, we got our first significant snow fall yesterday, and I'm still in denial that 8 months have passed living in this pandemic. Focusing on my dynasty team has been a big part of how I've coped with this strange new world. Here's hoping that the week 10 report finds you and yours healthy.
Before the season started, I did a mildly popular [Dynasty 2020 Rookie Stock Watch] (and at the request of the community, I'll be doing weekly updates! In case you missed previous weeks, you can find week 1 [here], week 2 [here], week 3 [here], week 4 here, week 5 here, week 6 here, week 7 here. week 8 here, and week 9 here.
Before I get into the report, I want to again remind you a little bit of how my methodology works - when I look at whom I consider to be the biggest risers and fallers, I put a few things into that determination:
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• 1. I consider where I would now draft this player in a rookie draft. Dropping 2 spots from 20 to 22 is a lot less significant than dropping from 4 to 5. If a player drops a couple spots near the top, this often suggests a big loss in value because of the large value drop between pick 1.01 and 1.04. Even dropping from "in the conversation for 1.01" to "clearly 2 with no case at all for 1" is a more significant drop than 2-3 spots in the second round.
• 2. When I try to determine if a player has fallen, I like to weigh what some of the perceptions were on that player's upside, and if any of those perceptions appear to no longer be true or at least need to be tempered.
• 3. We absolutely need to weigh in what has changed with the likelihood of rookie-year opportunity. A huge factor in the value of rookies is this question: "What will they be worth before the 2021 season?" - and that question is highly impacted by volume and opportunity in year 1.
• 4. Just because I have someone as a riser or faller doesn't mean I think you should buy/sell them at bad value. It's the same concept as stocks - if you believe in the fundamentals of the company you invested in, you don't sell off after a bad week. Similarly, after a stock skyrockets is not usually the best time to buy in - you'd want to wait for a brief regression before that.
• 5. Like Matthew Berry has said - just because a guy is on my faller list doesn't mean I like them less than a guy on my riser list. This is just my evaluation of their value relative to where it was before this week. These are really just feel takes and will ebb and flow as the season goes on. Looking at the fluidity of my rankings should make that obvious.

With that out of the way, let's dive in!

Biggest Week 10 risers:

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1. D'Andre Swift. The Detroit Lion finally made his long-awaited debut as a starter, and what a start it was. Getting the "lion's share" of the work was not wasted on Swift, who put up this weekend's highest point total among all rookies. If given the chance to truly feature, Swift is everything we wanted out of a 1.01 in the class. He was widely looked at as possibly the 1.01 before (and even after) the combine, and it was the Detroit landing spot that soured people on him. But 10 games into the season, Swift stands tied for rookie RB3 with Antonio Gibson, and his trajectory is on the rise. Every reason to believe this game will be launching pad for him.
2. Tee Higgins. All the guy does is produce. Week in and week out, Higgins has been a consistent performer. Stretching back to week 3, he's been averaging 17 points a week, and is in a system where he looks poised to become Burrow's NFL bff. I'm all in on Higgins like never before. For a guy who was falling into early 2nd rounds back in June, to a guy who looks like he's a top 3 WR in the class, Higgins (who was considered a boom or bust) looks to clearly be a boom.
3. Salvon Ahmed. Lowkey, Ahmed was the highest scoring UDFA RB this last week. With Gaskin landing on the IR, Ahmed got a chance to shine and took full advantage. This game is substantial because a performance like this gives a guy a lot of staying power on the league. In shallow leagues Ahmed might not have even been rostered before this game. And while I don't think the guy is a great long-term asset, chances are you got him for free, and he looks like a nice piece to slide into a flex or ship to a contender for some depth.
4. Michael Pittman. As a JT owner, I'd like to pretend that Thursday's game didn't happen. But I'm also a Pittman owner. Pittman looked to be the WR1 already on a Colts team that waffle-stomped the Titans on Thursday, putting up excellent numbers as his rebound from an early injury goes into full force. I really like Pittman's chances of getting a stranglehold on the WR1 job this year, and if he can close out the season with continued production, he seems poised for a big 2021.
5. Justin Jefferson, Brandon Aiyuk, and Antonio Gibson. Two more solid performances have these guys continuing to either rise or solidify their positions on the charts. Aiyuk keeps producing, and Jefferson looks great whenever the Viking game flow requires passing. Jefferson's routes and ability to get open short and long make him look like a true technician on the field. Aiyuk's ability to make the difficult catch and what he can do with the ball in his hands makes him a regular threat for the home run. Meanwhile, despite JD getting a significant amount of work, analysts noted that the WFT looked extremely inefficient when utilizing him. On the flipside, WFT got more production and yards per touch out of Gibson. Hopefully this will push JD's usage a bit down in future weeks.

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Biggest Week 10 fallers:

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1. JaMycal Hasty. You hate to see a guy get a chance to explode out of nowhere, and instead suffer a significant injury. Hasty's broken collarbone will sideline him the rest of 2020 and likely destroys whatever promise he had, as the 49ers will likely have their 100 injured players back in time for the start of the '21 season.
2. DeeJay Dallas. Limited snap share despite injuries and the fact that eventually some of these Seahawk RBs will be coming back really does let some of the air out of the tires for Dallas. He's a fine stash and wait sort of guy for now, but his window to impress early is closing, which greatly reduces the odds that he'll be anything special for you going forward.
3. JK Dobbins. While everyone was busy watching Jonathan Taylor under-perform, we might've slept a bit on Dobbins who has crashed down to earth in the last two weeks. While owners should obviously stay committed to the long-term approach, it is frustrating to see Dobbins get so few opportunities week after week. That said, JK was always a "wait for '21 approach", and we shouldn't adjust his value too much on the long term just because his long-shot chance at early production looks to be fading away.
4. Joshua Kelley. All I'm going to say here is that if Ballage looks better than you, you might not be as good as we hoped. No doubt it's still his rookie year and Kelley can turn it around, but it feels like any bum off the street looks better than Kelley when thrust into the RB role for the Chargers right now.
5. Zach Moss. 8 touches for 17 yards in the last week was a bit of a let down production-wise. The Moss/Singletary platoon seems to be fantasy purgatory overall. Good for NFL production and fine in very deep leagues / leagues with tons of starters, but it feels like its going to be hard to trust Moss to ever really produce starter-worthy numbers in this situation.

How I rank them right now

(in 1QB, but I will include where I would bump the QBs up to in 2QB)
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01 D'Andre Swift
02 Justin Jefferson
03 Clyde Edwards-Helaire
04 CeeDee Lamb
05 James Robinson
06 Tee Higgins
07 Jerry Jeudy
08a Antonio Gibson
08b Jonathan Taylor ----------- I really value these 3 about the same at this point
08c JK Dobbins
11 Brandon Aiyuk
12 Chase Claypool
13 Justin Herbert (1.01 in 2QB/SF)
14 Joe Burrow (1.02 in 2QB/SF)
15 Jalen Reagor
16 Michael Pittman Jr
17 Denzel Mims
18 Laviska Shenault
19 Cam Akers
20 Tua Tagovailoa (1.03 in 2QB)
21 Henry Ruggs III
22 Zach Moss
23 AJ Dillon
24 Bryan Edwards
25 La'Mical Perine
26 Darnell Mooney
27 Gabriel Davis
28 KJ Hamler
29 Deejay Dallas
30 Ke'Shawn Vaughn
31 Devin Duvernay
32 Joshua Kelley
33 Salvon Ahmed
34 Tyler Johnson
35 Van Jefferson
36 Darrynton Evans
37 Collin Johnson
38 Marquez Callaway
39 Quintez Cephus
40 Anthony McFarland Jr
41 Jordan Love (late 2nd in SF)
42 Antonio Gandy-Golden
43 JaMycal Hasty
44 Jalen Hurts (who I am not convinced is any better at football than Lynn Bowden Jr)
TE Section (so no one asks why I have no TEs on here)
45 Harrison Bryant
46 Cole Kmet
47 Adam Trautman
Obligatory Kicker Shoutout:
48 Tyler Bass
49 Rodrigo Blankenship
More likely to end up in prison than starting for you in a Dynasty league: (an inside joke aimed at a guy who really loves Bowden and always asks me where I'd rank him - which is truthfully "late 4th at best".
50 Lynn Bowden Jr.

Last words:

JT's Thursday game shouldn't alarm owners any more than they already were previously. As a result, I'm not really dropping him further in reaction. Out of his 9 touches, 5 were actually solid plays, and of the 4 that weren't, the OL should be graded an "F" for effort and result on 3 of those 4. His two catches looked solid, great job trucking a defender on the first one, and he converted 2 4th and 1s. I wouldn't read too much into the game - it was Hines' birthday and he got hot, but he also got super elite blocking on his first 3 touches which caused Rathman to be convinced he was the hot hand. He might've been, but JT hasn't seen blocking like what Hines saw this entire season.
Swift is the real story here though - he shows early flashes of Kamara 2.0, and I think he deserves to be placed back up where he was on our draft boards before the NFL Draft. As long as Patricia realizes he won't stay in the NFL unless he wins, and using Swift 75%+ is his best chance to winning, the production could even arrive before Patricia departs. That's better than a lot of us were even hoping for!
I hope you folks continue to enjoy reading these as much as I enjoy reading your responses. Have a great week and drop me a message! Please stay healthy out there! :)
What do you think? As always I will try to engage with each-and-every reply.