{"id":740542,"date":"2026-02-09T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:25:13","slug":"early-2026-nfl-power-rankings-have-the-denver-broncos-ranked-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740542\/","title":{"rendered":"Early 2026 NFL Power Rankings have the Denver Broncos ranked high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">With a 90.1 PFSN Defense Impact Score, the Denver Broncos had the best defense in the NFL in 2025. They were the only team with an \u201cA\u201d grade this season, with players like Patrick Surtain, Zach Allen, Nik Bonitto, Talanoa Hufanga, and Jonathon Cooper all putting together strong campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Denver has such a good defense that they\u2019ll be competitive in most games they play in 2026. The biggest question is the further development of Bo Nix. He\u2019s a good quarterback who can execute Sean Payton\u2019s system well, but can he ever be great? If he takes that next step, it\u2019ll be tough to prevent them from making the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a 90.1 PFSN Defense Impact Score, the Denver Broncos had the best defense in the NFL in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,63376,2426,7,6],"class_list":["post-740542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denver-broncos-power-rankings","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116041372519859465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740542","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=740542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}