{"id":80315,"date":"2025-05-26T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/80315\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:47:09","slug":"nfc-west-places-3rd-in-nfl-division-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/80315\/","title":{"rendered":"NFC West places 3rd in NFL division rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFC West was among the most competitive divisions throughout the 2024 season. The 10-7 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> were the lone double-digit win team to miss the playoffs. The fellow 10-7 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> captured the division title via the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>The NFC West projects as a competitive division again in 2024. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco 49ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> appear poised to bounce back from a disappointing campaign. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona Cardinals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> are viewed as an ascending squad.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Pro Football Focus recently ranked all eight divisions around the league. The NFC West placed third, trailing just the AFC West and NFC North.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seattle faces more uncertainty, with Sam Darnold stepping in at quarterback and no D.K. Metcalf in the receiving corps,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-ranking-nfl-divisions-by-strength-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trevor Sikkema wrote about the Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trevor Sikkema wrote about the Seahawks<\/a>. &#8220;If the Cardinals take the next step \u2014 and there\u2019s reason to believe they can \u2014 the NFC West could turn into a four-team slugfest. The Rams remain one of the toughest outs in the league, and if not for the blizzard in their playoff game against the Eagles, they might have been on their way to the NFC Championship Game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NFC West&#8217;s cumulative over\/under win total for the 2025 campaign is 37, tying the AFC West and NFC North for first place in PFF&#8217;s projected division rankings. The Seahawks are certainly the biggest wild-card in the division. If John Schneider&#8217;s sweeping offseason changes prove fruitful, the NFC West will be as competitive as ever in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/26\/nfl-division-rankings-nfc-west-places-3rd\/83861828007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL division rankings: NFC West places 3rd;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL division rankings: NFC West places 3rd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFC West was among the most competitive divisions throughout the 2024 season. The 10-7 Seattle Seahawks were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[1991,390,7070,7,58,1592,1593,6,252,238,237,261,2635,7216],"class_list":{"0":"post-80315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-afc-west","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-division","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-nfc-north","14":"tag-nfc-west","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-seahawks","18":"tag-seattle","19":"tag-seattle-seahawks","20":"tag-seattleseahawks","21":"tag-the-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114574448711640748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80315","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=80315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}