My GMEN HQ fantasy football rankings continue and this week I’ll be taking a look at defenses. The defense position is always an interesting one, as pre-season rankings never turn out the way you expect them to. Sometimes heavy hitters like the New York Jets or Pittsburgh Steelers are highly ranked and taken earlier than expected in fantasy drafts and every year there’s a fantasy team or two that disappoints.
On the flipside there are the real life defenses of NFL teams that aren’t expected to do much that end up becoming top rated fantasy football defenses at the end of the year and we have to look no further than the Houston Texans and the Cincinnati Bengals last year for such examples.
With that in mind here are my current fantasy football team defense rankings:
- San Francisco 49ers
- Baltimore Ravens
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Houston Texans
- Chicago Bears
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Green Bay Packers
- New York Giants
- Detroit Lions
- New York Jets
- Seattle Seahawks
- New England Patriots
- Buffalo Bills
- Cincinnati Bengals
- Denver Broncos
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Arizona Cardinals
- Dallas Cowboys
- Atlanta Falcons
- New Orleans Saints
- Tennessee Titans
- San Diego Chargers
- Oakland Raiders
- Miami Dolphins
- Cleveland Browns
- Minnesota Vikings
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Washington Redskins
- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Carolina Panthers
- St. Louis Rams
- Indianapolis Colts