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The Kevin Sheehan Show

NFL Power Rankings: Kevin & Max rank the AFC Playoff teams 1-7

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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1.9.26, Kevin Sheehan and Producer Max give their rankings for the AFC playoff teams going into the wildcard round.

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0:00.0

It's one through seven because it's playoff time. Yesterday we did our NFC playoff power rankings.

0:07.7

Today we're going to do our AFC power rankings. I'll run through my NFC just in case you missed it without the conversation to go with it.

0:14.5

I had the Rams 1, Seattle 2, Philly 3, Green Bay 4, San Francisco 5, Chicago, 6, and Carolina 7. Max, yourilly three, Green Bay, four, San Francisco five, Chicago, six, and Carolina, seven.

0:24.0

Max, your NFC, one through seven.

0:25.9

My one through seven was Rams one, Seahawks, two, Packers, three, 49ers, four, Bears, five, Eagles, six, Panthers, seven.

0:34.1

Yeah, so now let's do the AFC, and I'm going to tell you right now, and when you go through this exercise, the only conclusion that you can come to is that the AFC playoffs are even more wide open than the NFC playoffs. It's really hard to come up with a 1 through 7 that everybody would agree on. I don't even think we'd

0:55.8

agree. I think there'd be four or five teams, three or four, that people might put it number

1:01.6

one. Yeah. You know, we had Ross Tucker on the show yesterday. He said that, yes, it's the most

1:09.0

wide open postseason he can ever remember,

1:12.1

but he also said that he thinks the winner of the Buffalo Jacksonville game on Sunday.

1:16.8

That's the early game Sunday is going to the Super Bowl.

1:20.2

I thought that was interesting, but that's not a crazy take.

1:23.5

I don't think there are any crazy takes with the AFC.

1:28.1

So I'll go first.

1:32.2

This is the team that going back to late October, early November,

1:38.1

I have pegged as a team that was capable of winning the Super Bowl

1:41.6

and certainly going to the Super Bowl.

1:44.1

And I'm going to tell you that I don't know that I feel as strongly today as I did even two weeks ago.

1:52.2

But the Houston Texans are my number one AFC team.

1:57.5

They are the best defensive team in the league right now Seattle's a close second maybe

2:03.0

Philadelphia you know right there with Seattle they have the two best you know combo pass

2:09.8

rushers in the league in Will Anderson Jr who I think is the second best defensive

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