The same old suspect — we’re you, Detroit Lions — ought to once more have a high-powered offense. However what groups enter may enter the 2025 NFL season with dreadful offenses?
Forward of coaching camps opening in late July, Yardbarker NFL writers grade every NFC staff’s skill-position group.
NFC East
Dallas Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb
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DALLAS COWBOYS | Grade: B+ | A wholesome QB Dak Prescott with WRs CeeDee Lamb (38 profession TD receptions in 5 seasons) and George Pickens (16.3 YPC in three seasons) are strong. However the Cowboys don’t have a confirmed RB, so it’s all as much as Prescott.
NEW YORK GIANTS | Grade: D | Actually, who thinks QB Russell Wilson (6-5 as starter for Steelers in 2024) has something left after three groups in 4 years? New York has a budding star in WR Malik Nabers (1,204 receiving yards as a rookie in 2024), however the Giants don’t have studs at RB.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES | Grade: A+ | QB Jalen Hurts, RB Saquon Barkley (2,005 speeding yards final season) and WRs A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith are the NFL’s greatest quartet. Barkley, essentially the most priceless piece, can win video games alone.
WASHINGTON COMMANDERS | Grade: A- | It will be an A alone with simply QB Jayden Daniels, final yr’s Offensive Rookie of the 12 months. However Deebo Samuel helps Terry McLaurin and a deep crew into top-10 receiver corps. The operating sport is various however lacks the 1,000-yard banger. — Rick Snider
NFC West
Los Angeles Rams receiver Davante Adams
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ARIZONA CARDINALS | B |
Led by Professional Bowl TE Trey McBride (1,146 yards receiving final season), the Cardinals are leaning on younger expertise to carry out. 2024 first-round choose Marvin Harrison and veteran Michael Wilson are anticipated to focus on an explosive passing assault whereas James Conner (1,094 yards speeding final season) anchors one of many extra underrated speeding offenses.
LOS ANGELES RAMS | A- | The offense is all about star energy with Davante Adams and Puka Nacua headlining a receiving corps that may choose aside any protection. Kyren Williams has a declare for the title of greatest RB within the NFC West after 14 TDs speeding in 2024. The addition of rookie TE Terrance Ferguson provides depth for QB Matthew Stafford to construct off a near-NFC Championship Recreation look final season.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS | B+ | The offensive weapons have boom-or-bust potential primarily due to the well being considerations of RB Christian McCaffrey and WR Brandon Aiyuk. If each gamers carry out at a excessive stage, San Francisco may have an elite offense, particularly with All-Professional TE George Kittle, who’s approaching second place on the franchise’s all-time receiving yards checklist. Plus, San Francisco has a younger, gifted receiving corps led by Ricky Pearsall and Jauan Jennings.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS | B- | WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the lone star on the offense after 1,130 yards receiving and 6 TD catches in 2024. Nevertheless, if veteran WR Cooper Kupp rekindles his 2021 magic (1,947 yards receiving with the Rams) and RB Kenneth Walker stays wholesome, new QB Sam Darnold ought to have loads of firepower to guide a powerful offense. — Sterling Bennett
NFC North
Detroit Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown
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CHICAGO BEARS | Grade: B |
DJ Moore is an underrated, dependable No. 1 WR with 2,330 receiving yards and 15 whole touchdowns in his first two seasons in Chicago, whereas the younger pass-catching trio of WRs Rome Odunze, Luther Burden III and TE Colston Loveland has sky-high potential in new HC Ben Johnson’s offense. With a number of gifted receivers and home-run hitter D’Andre Swift main the backfield, QB Caleb Williams is poised to take an enormous leap in 12 months 2.
DETROIT LIONS | Grade: A+ |
The Lions, led by two-time All-Professional WR Amon-Ra St. Brown and the unstoppable thunder-and-lightning duo of David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs at RB, may need the NFL’s most dynamic group of skill-position gamers. With speedy WR Jameson Williams and versatile TE Sam LaPorta additionally within the combine, it was no shock Detroit led the NFL in factors per sport (33.1) final season.
GREEN BAY PACKERS | Grade: B- |
Inexperienced Bay’s offense is extra about depth than top-end expertise, as Jayden Reed, Romeo Doubs, Christian Watson, Matthew Golden and Tucker Kraft are strong pass-catchers however not superstars. The most effective of the bunch is RB Josh Jacobs, who rushed for 1,329 yards and a career-high 15 touchdowns final season in his first yr with the Packers.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS | Grade: A- |
It’s laborious to go under an A- on the staff that employs Justin Jefferson, a four-time Professional Bowler who has essentially the most receiving yards by 5 seasons of any participant in NFL historical past (7,432). With WR Jordan Addison, TE T.J. Hockenson and RB Aaron Jones additionally at his disposal, new beginning QB J.J. McCarthy is about as much as succeed straight away. — Jack Dougherty
NFC South
Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans
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ATLANTA FALCONS | Grade: B+ |
Contemplating the assets spent on talent positions — high eight picks within the 2021, 2022 and 2023 NFL drafts — this group needs to be an A, and it nearly is. Bijan Robinson is likely one of the league’s extra dynamic RBs and Drake London is a reputable No. 1 WR, however TE Kyle Pitts has disillusioned, averaging 542 receiving yards per season from 2022-24.
CAROLINA PANTHERS | C- |
RB Chuba Hubbard is coming off a season with private highs in speeding makes an attempt (250), speeding yards (1,195) and speeding touchdowns (10). He doesn’t supply a lot within the passing sport, however neither did most of Carolina’s WRs for QB Bryce Younger in 2024, which is why the entrance workplace picked Arizona WR Tetairoa McMillan at No. 8 general within the 2025 NFL Draft as an alternative of addressing its league-worst protection.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS | B | No NFC South offense has as a lot potential to supply fireworks because the Saints, who characteristic five-time Professional Bowl RB Alvin Kamara and explosive WRs Chris Olave and Rasheed Shaheed. In Week 2 of the 2024 season, NFL Professional wrote, “Because the begin of final season,” the 2 WRs “rank among the many high six receivers in variety of routes that reached 20+ mph.” However well being considerations (the duo missed 20 video games mixed in 2024) and questionable depth behind them lowers New Orleans’ grade.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS | A- |
The Bucs have a humiliation of riches at WR, with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin established because the Nos. 1 and a couple of on the depth chart, and rookie Emeka Egbuka and second-year professional Jalen McMillan giving QB Baker Mayfield robust secondary choices. RB Bucky Irving averaged 5.4 yards per carry and gained 1,514 yards from scrimmage as a rookie, and TE Cade Otton had 59 receptions for 600 yards (each profession highs) in 2024 regardless of lacking the ultimate three video games of the common season with a sprained knee. — Eric Smithling
