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Packers Fall Out of Top 10 in Composite NFL Power Rankings

The Green Bay Packers were No. 3 in the preseason power rankings but plunged after being routed by the New Orleans Saints.
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Packers Fall Out of Top 10 in Composite NFL Power Rankings
Packers Fall Out of Top 10 in Composite NFL Power Rankings

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Not surprisingly, the Green Bay Packers plunged out of the Top 10 in the Packer Central Composite NFL Power Rankings.

Green Bay opened at No. 3 in our rankings, a composite consisting of Packer Central, Sports Illustrated, The Associated Press, ESPN.com, NFL.com and CBS.com. After a 38-3 drubbing by the New Orleans Saints, the Packers fell to No. 12. It stayed in the Top 10 in only two of the six polls.

"Losing on opening weekend doesn’t mean the Packers are not one of the obvious Super Bowl favorites out of the NFC," read the SI power rankings, where the Packers remained sixth. "Green Bay tanks a few of these a year, where it becomes obvious that they’re faltering and Aaron Rodgers seems to fold down the wings for an afternoon. This is still a cherry-blossom-laden stroll to the NFC North crown."

As was the case last week, Tampa Bay and Kansas City hold the top two spots.

Packer Central: 1, Tampa Bay; 2, Kansas City; 3, L.A. Rams; 4, San Francisco; 5, New Orleans; 6, L.A. Chargers; 7, Pittsburgh; 8, Seattle; 9, Cleveland; 10, Pittsburgh. (Green Bay, 11th.)

Sports Illustrated: 1, L.A. Rams; 2, Tampa Bay; 3, Kansas City; 4, San Francisco; 5, Cleveland; 6, Green Bay; 7, Buffalo; 8, Seattle; 9, Denver; 10, Baltimore.

AP Pro 32: 1, Tampa Bay; 2, Kansas City; 3, Seattle; 4, New Orleans; 5, Pittsburgh; 5, L.A. Rams; 7, Arizona; 8, Cleveland; 9, Buffalo; 10, San Francisco. (Green Bay, 18th.)

ESPN.com: 1, Kansas City; 2, Tampa Bay; 3, Seattle; 4, L.A. Rams; 5, Buffalo; 6, Cleveland; 7, San Francisco; 8, Pittsburgh; 9, New Orleans; 10, Baltimore. (Green Bay, 11th.)

NFL.com: 1, Tampa Bay; 2, Kansas City; 3, L.A. Rams; 4, Seattle; 5, Pittsburgh; 6, Buffalo; 7, Baltimore; 8, Cleveland; 9, San Francisco; 10, New Orleans. (Green Bay, 12th.)

CBS.com: 1, Tampa Bay; 2, Kansas City; 3, San Francisco; 4, L.A. Rams; 5, Arizona; 6, New Orleans; 7, Pittsburgh; 8, Seattle; 9, Buffalo; 10, Green Bay.

Composite: 1. Tampa Bay (8); 2, Kansas City (12); 3, L.A. Rams (20); 4, Seattle (34); 5, San Francisco (37); 6, Buffalo (43); 7, New Orleans (46); 7, Pittsburgh (46); 9, Cleveland (48); 10, Baltimore (66); 11, Arizona (67); 12, Green Bay (68).

Preseason composite: 1, Tampa Bay (8); 2, Kansas City (9); 3, Green Bay (17); 3, Buffalo (17); 5, L.A. Rams (28); 6, Cleveland (32); 7, Baltimore (34); 8, San Francisco (40); 9, Tennessee (47); 10, Seattle (54).

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Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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