{"id":350698,"date":"2025-09-08T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/350698\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:32:12","slug":"nfl-week-1-grades-bills-earn-b-for-wild-win-over-ravens-aaron-rodgers-leads-steelers-to-solid-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/350698\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 1 grades: Bills earn ‘B+’ for wild win over Ravens, Aaron Rodgers leads Steelers to solid mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to the Week 1 grades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2025 NFL<\/a> season is off and running and like we do every year, we’re going to be grading every game that’s played between now and January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first week of the season always seems to get a little crazy and this year was no exception. In the early games on Sunday, we saw the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> total just 141 yards in a win over the Cleveland Browns<\/a>. And then there was the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>, who won their regular-season opener for the first time since 2013 and it was all thanks to Daniel Jones<\/a>. Yes, that Daniel Jones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aaron Rodgers<\/a> got revenge on the New York Jets<\/a> and all he needed to make it happen was a 60-yard field goal from Chris Boswell<\/a> in the final minute. Not every kicker was as reliable as Boswell, though. In Atlanta, the Falcons<\/a> had a chance to force overtime against the Buccaneers<\/a>, but OT didn’t happen because the kick missed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The craziest game of all may have been the one that happened on Sunday night in Buffalo where the Bills stunned the Baltimore Ravens 41-40 after trailing 40-25 with just four minutes left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s been a wild week, and now it’s time to grade every game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay 23-20 over AtlantaCincinnati 17-16 over ClevelandIndianapolis 33-8 over MiamiLas Vegas 20-13 over New EnglandArizona 20-13 over over New OrleansPittsburgh 34-32 over N.Y. JetsJacksonville 26-10 over CarolinaWashington 21-6 over N.Y. Giants<\/a>San Francisco 17-13 over SeattleL.A. Rams 14-9 over HoustonDenver 20-12 over TennesseeGreen Bay 27-13 over DetroitBuffalo 41-40 over BaltimorePhiladelphia 24-20 over Dallas (Thursday)L.A. Chargers<\/a> 27-21 over Chiefs<\/a> (Friday in Brazil)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Welcome to the Week 1 grades.\u00a0 The 2025 NFL season is off and running and like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1586,36408,390,254,1842,4127,797,1476,260,1121,6204,256,54,1370,257,2772,1705,2870,833,702,7,1507,392,125,3006,6913,476,492,757,13,1577,562,493,1159,110,1328,7166,4827,393,262,3374,251,491,1879,249,55,56,255,6,109,57,9277,572,4085,250,7150,8699,25211,6042,3452,283,589,111,21639,1080,8337],"class_list":{"0":"post-350698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-andre-szmyt","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons","12":"tag-baker-mayfield","13":"tag-bijan-robinson","14":"tag-brock-bowers","15":"tag-bryce-young","16":"tag-carolina-panthers","17":"tag-ceedee-lamb","18":"tag-chris-boswell","19":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-cleveland-browns","21":"tag-dak-prescott","22":"tag-dallas-cowboys","23":"tag-daniel-jones","24":"tag-deebo-samuel","25":"tag-dk-metcalf","26":"tag-drake-maye","27":"tag-emeka-egbuka","28":"tag-football","29":"tag-geno-smith","30":"tag-indianapolis-colts","31":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","32":"tag-jacory-croskey-merritt","33":"tag-jakobi-meyers","34":"tag-jalen-carter","35":"tag-jalen-hurts","36":"tag-james-conner","37":"tag-jaxson-dart","38":"tag-joe-burrow","39":"tag-joe-flacco","40":"tag-justin-fields","41":"tag-justin-herbert","42":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","43":"tag-keenan-allen","44":"tag-kellen-moore","45":"tag-kyler-murray","46":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","47":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","48":"tag-marvin-harrison-jr","49":"tag-miami-dolphins","50":"tag-micah-parsons","51":"tag-michael-penix-jr","52":"tag-new-england-patriots","53":"tag-new-orleans-saints","54":"tag-new-york-giants","55":"tag-new-york-jets","56":"tag-nfl","57":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","58":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","59":"tag-quentin-johnston","60":"tag-russell-wilson","61":"tag-spencer-rattler","62":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","63":"tag-travis-etienne","64":"tag-tre-tucker","65":"tag-trey-benson","66":"tag-trey-mcbride","67":"tag-tua-tagovailoa","68":"tag-tyler-shough","69":"tag-tyler-warren","70":"tag-washington-commanders","71":"tag-xavier-gipson","72":"tag-xavier-worthy","73":"tag-younghoe-koo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}