The NFL's most overrated and underrated teams, plus a ... unique injury

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Coming up: 

🏈 NFL underrated and overrated
🤕 Ouch
🧐 What’s up, Big Dumper?



At this point, I’ve backed into a full week of football segues.

We touched on some concrete preseason talk for college football yesterday.

Today, we turn to the NFL, where training camp starts in a week. 
We’re going off a fresh list, published this morning, of the most underrated and overrated NFL teams heading into 2026.