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2023 NFL Power Rankings after NFL Draft: What the league looks like right now

By Russell S. Baxter

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - FEBRUARY 15: Kansas City Chiefs players celebrate on stage during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVII victory parade on February 15, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - FEBRUARY 15: Kansas City Chiefs players celebrate on stage during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVII victory parade on February 15, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images) /
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PHILADELPHIA, PA – JANUARY 21: Saquon Barkley #26 of the New York Giants stretches prior to an NFL divisional round football game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on January 21, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA, PA – JANUARY 21: Saquon Barkley #26 of the New York Giants stretches prior to an NFL divisional round football game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on January 21, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images) /

NFL Power Rankings 2023, Post-NFL Draft: No. 12-10

. . Seattle Seahawks. 12. team. 36.

Thanks to a superb draft 2022 draft, the Seahawks bounced back from the last-place finish in 2021 to capture a playoff berth. The team dropped all three of its meetings with the NFC West champion 49ers, including a lopsided loss in the wild-card round. Geno Smith was the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Speaking of comebacks, linebacker Bobby Wagner has returned after a one-year stint with the Rams.

. New York Giants. 11. team. 31. .

The Giants are looking to build off their first playoff appearance since 2016 and first postseason win since Super Bowl XLVI in 2011. They gave quarterback Daniel Jones a new contract and put the “franchise” tag on running back Saquon Barkley, who stayed healthy. The NFL’s 25th-ranked defense should be better with defensive tackles DT Rakeem Nunez-Roches and A’Shawn Robinson and linebacker Bobby Okereke.

team. 13. . . . Los Angeles Chargers. 10

This was a playoff team this past season for the first time since 2018. How long will the taste of blowing a 27-point lead at Jacksonville haunt Brandon Staley’s club? This offseason, the Chargers added linebacker Eric Kendricks, late of the Vikings. The Bolts drafted exactly one player in each of the seven rounds, three from TCU in wideouts Quentin Johnson (1st) and Derius Davis (4th) and quarterback Max Duggan (7th).

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