With the Seattle Seahawks now the Super Bowl champions, everything now shifts with a focus on the 2026 season, as it is officially the offseason. And with the start of the offseason for everyone, there are new power rankings for 2026 from ESPN.
As you might expect, the Arizona Cardinals don’t enter the offseason ranked highly. They are ranked among the lowest in the league.
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Arizona Cardinals in bottom 5 in early 2026 power rankings
The Cardinals come in at No. 28 overall.
Their offseasons in three words is “reset and reboot.”
Arizona hit the reset button on its rebuild yet again by firing Jonathan Gannon and hiring Mike LaFleur. That means everything is up in the air, including what the Cardinals will do at quarterback. Either LaFleur will be allowed to decide if he wants to work with Kyler Murray, or that decision will be made for him by the powers that be. Regardless, LaFleur will have to place his fingerprints all over the building, from his roster to the culture and everything in between, restarting another timeline for an organization that just came off a three-year span that was supposed to result in a rebuild. — Josh Weinfuss
There can’t be much optimism for this team. They entered 2025 with hopes of competing for the postseason. They won eight games in 2024 and seemingly improved the roster. Those upgrades didn’t pay off.
They have questions now at a ton of positions.
The rest of the NFC West is in the top six, and the Cardinals sit in the bottom five. Nothing has changed.
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