{"id":742877,"date":"2026-02-10T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:06:18","slug":"ranking-every-team-including-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742877\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking every team (including Saints)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL 2026 strength of schedule: Ranking every team (including Saints)<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Feb. 10, 2026, 10:12 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">What&#8217;s in store for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-orleans-saints\/350\" data-autotag=\"84b23fc0-f769-4d65-9d38-018c62e4efd7\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> in 2026? They salvaged an ugly 2025 season after pivoting to Tyler Shough as their starting quarterback, and now they&#8217;re poised to take a step forward by building around him. One silver lining to finishing in last place in the NFC South is a schedule full of other last-place finishers. If the Saints can make the right moves this offseason to upgrade Shough&#8217;s supporting cast, they could turn things around in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So where does the Saints&#8217; strength of schedule rank among the rest of the league?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here&#8217;s every <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ivan_Urena1\/status\/1876142264629740029\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL team&#8217;s 2026 strength of schedule<\/a>, ranked from most difficult to easiest, as Super Bowl LX brought the 2025 season to a close.<\/p>\n<p>NFL 2026 strength of scheduleExpert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 saintswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL 2026 strength of schedule: Ranking every team (including Saints) Feb. 10, 2026, 10:12 a.m. CT What&#8217;s in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95878,7,6,15505,96128,95882,95898,96033,96059,96089,95913,95957,95886,96242,95976,95953,95936,95951,95988,96129,95891,95895,95899,96090,95977,95902,95883,97971,96239,96006,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-742877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnflsaints","12":"tag-sstsnsaints","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagbaltimore-ravens","15":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","16":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","17":"tag-tagchicago-bears","18":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","19":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","20":"tag-tagdenver-broncos","21":"tag-tagdetroit-lions","22":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","23":"tag-taghouston-texans","24":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","25":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","26":"tag-tagminnesota-vikings","27":"tag-tagnew-orleans-saints","28":"tag-tagnew-york-giants","29":"tag-tagnfl-hub","30":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","31":"tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","32":"tag-tagseattle-seahawks","33":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","34":"tag-tagsports-news","35":"tag-tagsuper-bowl-60","36":"tag-tagtampa-bay-buccaneers","37":"tag-tagwashington-commanders","38":"tag-typestory"},"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\/742877","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=742877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}