NFL 2018 predictions: Which team will win each division?
By Nile McNair
Will the Green Bay Packers win the NFC North in 2018?
In the NFL, winning your division is the first step towards the ultimate goal of winning the Super Bowl.
Unlike in any other sports leagues, in the NFL, teams go from worst to first every year. Predicting how each division standings will finish is very difficult. The division winner is usually the easiest to pick. But how the other three teams in the division will finish is really tough. Most of these teams have major flaws and will finish with similar records.
Now instead of ranking each division based off how strong one division is compared to another, I ranked each team within their own division. If I did have to choose which division is the toughest it would probably be the NFC South. This is for multiple reasons. The NFC South is the best quarterback division.
Drew Bress, Cam Newton, and Matt Ryan are highly acclaimed and have all led a team to the Super Bowl. Not to mention Tampa Bay has Jamies Winston who is a former number one pick and franchise quarterback. Also, the NFC South was the only division last year to produce three playoff teams.
Division rivalaries produce some of the best games of the entire NFL season. Sweeping through the division gets harder and harder to do each year. In 2018, expect more upsets within the division and some teams finishing higher in the standings than they did last year.