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NFL Power Rankings, Week 13

Somehow a year has passed, and pinch-hitting for my friend and colleague Paul Zimmerman on SI.com's NFL Power Rankings still reminds me a bit of attending a

Somehow a year has passed, and pinch-hitting for my friend and colleague Paul Zimmerman on SI.com's NFL Power Rankings still reminds me a bit of attending a Broadway show and discovering you picked the lead role's understudy performance. Alas, we're all understudys when it comes to Dr. Z's decades-long coverage of pro football. So I'm in good company there.

For all you Dr. Z-philes out there, thanks for the patience and forbearance this past year as I've attempted to fill a void that can't entirely be filled. Like you, I anxiously await the good doctor's return, and hope 2010 reunites him with the weekly NFL feature he was born to write. Now on to this week's rankings...

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Don Banks
DON BANKS

Senior NFL writer Don Banks joined SI in 2000 after 10 years on the beat covering the Vikings and Buccaneers. His Snap Judgments cap off every Sunday of every NFL season.