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The Hawks, like 2/3 of the rest of the teams in the division, routinely have a reliable defense. They lost a couple of guys to retirement (most notably SS Roy Williams), but they have high draft picks to pick up where they left off. Given their historical production at the position, SS Keanu Neal might be one of the favorites for Defensive RotY. If they wish to be back in playoff contention though, they need their offense to step up. You would think a team with a team with a HB (DeMarco Murray) who has finished among the league leaders in rushing yards and a 4.4 YPC to his name, a QB who has posted an 85+ passer rating in his four seasons with the club (Philip Rivers), and an underrated WR corps would do better at scoring than they do, but the Hawks always seem to have one of the greater divides between total offense and points per game rankings. Aside from poor luck, maybe OL was an issue.

C Max Unger has a career 10:1 block:sack ratio, and RT Justin Blalock almost at 11:1 and is consistently on the blocking leaderboard. The other three spots tended to see lackluster production. With LT Jonas Jennings and RG Kynan Forney now retired, perhaps Taylor Lewan and Earl Watford can help stabilize the offense and put them in playoff contention this season. It will be tough since there are nine AFC teams that I would consider to be at least very good, but some convenient injuries and regression elsewhere can play in their favor. They get a rough start to the season with three straight road games and three of four games being against the non-Titan AFC South teams, but, and sorry to bring this up again, they do face the NFC South and avoid the Dolphins, Jets, Ravens, and Steelers, so the schedule as a whole is in their favor.

The Chiefs have some nice building blocks to form a future foundation, but this team is at least another year, probably two, away from being a serious Wild Card contender. There isn't a whole lot to say. Garappolo is coming off probably the best season by a Chief QB since Bruce Gradkowski, but his skid to end the season is a little concerning. Blount is a pretty average HB. Ditto their receiving corps (Gonzalez had a minor breakout year though) and OL (they spent a 1st round pick acquiring G Jonathan Fletcher for his potential and not production). Where they can realistically see strides though are on the defensive side where they have spent a lot of draft picks (through the draft or via trade).

Six of their projected starters are entering their rookie-4th years. Former 1st rounders OLB Jamie Collins and SS Andrew Sendejo in particular are prime for a breakout season any time. They don't have as daunting of a schedule given they finished last in S11 and face the NFC South this season, so there is hope for a better record and/or going further away from owning the #1 pick.
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