NFL Power Ranking Tiers Following Free Agency
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta go through their post-free agency NFL power ranking tiers!
(00:00) Intro
(1:00) Come Back In 2027
(4:08) Let’s See What The Young QB Has
(9:22) Teams With QB Question Marks
(14:33) Trendy Turnaround Candidates
(19:22) Seats Are Hot
(25:15) Outside Looking In
(29:28) Elite QB, Retooling Teams
(33:22) Playoff Teams
(38:34) Hipster Super Bowl Picks
(42:10) Super Bowl LXI Favorites
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to today's episode of Pushing the Pile. I'm Mike Renner, joined as always by J.P. |
| 0:15.9 | Acosta, with the free agency dust settled here. I just looking on CBSports.com, |
| 0:21.8 | the list of their top 100 free agents. |
| 0:24.0 | The top 33 have all been signed at this point. |
| 0:26.8 | You have to go to number 34 and Joanne Jennings |
| 0:28.6 | before you see a guy who has not inked a deal yet. |
| 0:31.2 | So I think it's safe to say there's not a ton of big moves to be made yet. |
| 0:36.1 | Maybe some trades come in, |
| 0:37.4 | but most of these rosters are set |
| 0:39.9 | in terms of the needs they'll have, what the strengths of weaknesses will be heading into |
| 0:44.5 | 2026. So because of that, we tasked JP with coming up with his tiers. Heading into the NFL |
| 0:50.7 | draft, obviously, rookies don't make a huge impact traditionally, historically, |
| 0:54.8 | but these are our way too early tiers for the 2026 NFL season. So JP, kick us off. We're |
| 1:02.1 | going to start at the bottom, work all the way to the top here, and tier every team in the NFL. |
| 1:08.1 | All right. So our first tier at the bottom, I called this comeback in 2027. |
| 1:12.9 | We'll talk to you next year after we kind of get this first year out the way. |
| 1:17.0 | And that group is the Arizona Cardinals, the Miami Dolphins, the New York Jets, and the Cleveland |
| 1:23.1 | Browns. |
| 1:23.9 | I think all these teams have all sort of found themselves in a spot in 2026 where this is |
| 1:29.6 | just about, this is their, find out what you have here. This is your, let's see who's going to be |
| 1:35.1 | on this roster for a long time moving forward. Most of these teams have new coaches. And I think |
| 1:41.3 | that this group has a chance to move up starting in 2027, but this year is going to be sort of an exploration year. Find out who you are. |
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