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Four more Week 10 power rankings: Shook and Davis put the 49ers first, Conor Orr moves the Jaguars to No. 1, and the Bills still lead on average

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Nick Shook and Nate Davis have the 49ers first, Mike Florio keeps the Bills on top and Conor Orr puts the Jaguars No. 1. Averaged, Buffalo still leads at 2.0. Davis is the only one of the four to re-rank after the Cousins trade.

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Four more Week 10 power rankings came out on Tuesday, and they do not agree on a No. 1. Nick Shook and Nate Davis put the San Francisco 49ers first, Mike Florio keeps the Buffalo Bills on top, and Conor Orr moves the Jacksonville Jaguars to No. 1 after their three trades. Averaged together, the Bills still lead at 2.0, just ahead of the 49ers (2.25) and the Jaguars (2.5).

These four lists are separate from the five in our Monday Week 10 consensus, which also had Buffalo first. Across all nine lists, the Bills have four first-place votes, the 49ers three and the Jaguars two, and the order at the top stays Bills, 49ers, Jaguars, Chicago Bears and Denver Broncos.

The league’s Week 10 power rankings video, with the 49ers at No. 1. Rankings in this story are from Nick Shook, Nate Davis, Mike Florio and Conor Orr, all published Nov. 10.

The four-list order

RankTeamRecordAverageShookDavisFlorioOrrMonday consensus
1Buffalo Bills7-12.022131
2San Francisco 49ers7-12.2511342
3Jacksonville Jaguars6-22.534213
4Chicago Bears7-23.543524
5Denver Broncos7-25.7565486
6Detroit Lions6-27.25761068
7Green Bay Packers6-38.0881159
8Cincinnati Bengals6-28.5514877
9Kansas City Chiefs6-28.751010695
10Seattle Seahawks5-49.7599912T-10
11Minnesota Vikings6-210.751171213T-10
12Pittsburgh Steelers6-211.5121371413
13Los Angeles Rams5-413.51712151012
14New England Patriots5-413.751511141514
15New York Giants5-2-114.251320131115
T-16Tampa Bay Buccaneers3-617.251416182117
T-16Cleveland Browns5-417.251915161918
18Houston Texans3-518.51622201616
19Las Vegas Raiders4-518.7521171720T-21
20Atlanta Falcons3-620.51818242223
21New Orleans Saints3-521.52319212324
22Carolina Panthers3-522.2520232224T-21
23Baltimore Ravens4-522.52825191820
24Dallas Cowboys4-523.752221252719
25Arizona Cardinals3-625.252726232526
26Miami Dolphins1-725.7529273017T-29
27Washington Commanders2-5-126.02624262825
28Tennessee Titans1-727.524292829T-29
29Indianapolis Colts2-727.752531292631
T-30New York Jets2-729.753028313027
T-30Philadelphia Eagles2-729.753130273128
32Los Angeles Chargers0-832.03232323232

Records are through Week 9. The last column is each team’s place in our five-list Monday consensus. Ties in the average share a rank. Shook and Florio published before the 4 p.m. ET trade deadline. Shook’s list later added editor’s notes on the Bills, Vikings and Raiders deals without moving anyone. Davis updated his list through Tuesday as trades came in, so his is the only one of the four that ranks teams after the deadline.

Three different No. 1s

Shook moved the 49ers up one spot to first after the 38-17 win over the Las Vegas Raiders, writing that the team was happy to “watch their defense feast” in a game with five takeaways. He has the Bills second and the Jaguars third, and wrote that Jacksonville “could be the best team in the AFC.” Davis also has San Francisco first and said the Keenan Allen trade “further entrenches San Fran at No. 1.”

Florio kept Buffalo first but said that against “a team with a borderline functional offense,” the Bills might have lost the top spot to Jacksonville. He has the Jaguars second. Orr went the rest of the way and put the Jaguars first, up from third, and has Chicago second ahead of Buffalo. He has the 49ers fourth, the lowest of the four lists.

The Jaguars’ post after Monday’s trades for Jessie Bates III and Jordan Davis, which Orr quoted at the top of his list.

Our interactive on Jacksonville’s three trades walks through the deals for Bates, Davis and Davon Godchaux.

The Vikings and the Cousins trade

The Minnesota Vikings are 11th at 10.75, down from a tie for 10th on Monday. Davis is the only writer to move them after Kirk Cousins came back from the Raiders for a 2027 third-round pick, and his update took them up four places to seventh. The other three lists came out before the trade. Orr has them 13th under the line “MAKE. THE. DAMN. TRADE.” Shook, at 11th, wrote that the front office “owes it to themselves, their players and their fan base to explore an upgrade at quarterback.” Florio, at 12th, called Tuesday “arguably the most pivotal non-game day for the Vikings in years.”

The Raiders are 19th at 18.75. Our deadline-day trade tracker has the Cousins deal, and Klint Kubiak’s reaction to trading Cousins covers Fernando Mendoza’s first start.

Where the four lists split

TeamRecordBest rankWorst rankGap
Miami Dolphins1-717 (Orr)30 (Florio)13
Baltimore Ravens4-518 (Orr)28 (Shook)10
Cincinnati Bengals6-25 (Shook)14 (Davis)9
New York Giants5-2-111 (Orr)20 (Davis)9
Los Angeles Rams5-410 (Orr)17 (Shook)7
Pittsburgh Steelers6-27 (Florio)14 (Orr)7

The biggest gap is Miami. Orr moved the 1-7 Dolphins from 31st to 17th, calling it “a one-week ceremonial bump due to effort” for a roster of mostly young players, while the other three have them 27th to 30th. The Baltimore Ravens run from 18th (Orr) to 28th (Shook) after a third straight loss by 20 or more points.

The Cincinnati Bengals are fifth for Shook, who wrote that their offense “is special,” but 14th for Davis, one spot behind the Pittsburgh Steelers. The two teams meet Sunday night in Cincinnati for first place in the AFC North. The New York Giants go from 11th (Orr) to 20th (Davis).

The bottom

All four lists have the 0-8 Los Angeles Chargers last, as all five did on Monday. The New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles share 30th at 29.75. The Tennessee Titans, who traded Jeffery Simmons and Amani Hooker, are 28th, and the Indianapolis Colts are 29th. Davis wrote that the Eagles are close to losing eight in a row and that the last time that happened, in 2012, Andy Reid was fired.

Week 10 starts Thursday with the Washington Commanders at the Giants. The Bills visit the Jets, the Jaguars play at Tennessee, the 49ers go to Dallas and the Vikings play at Green Bay on Sunday.

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