The 2023 draft has come and gone, which means a new opportunity to look at rosters from a fresh perspective. More than anything, I feel like we can judge teams in clearer-cut terms this time of year, given how few of them employ nebulous drafting strategies that don’t look to fill immediate needs.
All of these teams drafted for need in the first two rounds. Every last one. And a few of them (see: my Colts movement) saw a massive prospective improvement in terms of their 2023 ceiling. I think this rookie class was good enough to immediately impact the NFL season, more so than the wide-receiver-happy and quarterback-less class of ’22.
So, now is as good a time as any to roll out a new edition of our power rankings, which show the Eagles on the warpath post–Super Bowl loss, and the Ravens back on the rise, among other bird team updates.
