Baltimore arrives as a favorite to a division where Bengals and Steelers seek to snatch the crown.
As has become a custom in recent years, Baltimore Ravens they arrive once again as-amplios-favorites not only to take the AFC Northbut to reach the Super Bowl.
However, Baltimore You will not have a simple job to win the division title. The Cincinnati Bengals They are outlined as their rivals to win, with an elite offensive that includes the Quartback Joe Burrow and the open receptors Ja'mar Chase and Tee Higgins. In addition, the arrival of Aaron Rodgers to the Pittsburgh Steelers It represents a great unknown.
For its part, the Cleveland Browns They appear as the weakest team of the division, but will it really be easy to defeat them this season?
Let's take a look at what holds the AFC North In the 2025 NFL season:
Los Ravens They tried to keep their nucleus intact while adding pieces such as corner Jaire Alexander to underpin a defensive needed to help in the position to cover the opposite side to Nate Wiggins.
Derrick Henry signed a contract extension in the low season, which guarantees the commitment of Baltimore With his powerful land attack, despite having safe hands in Deandre Hopkins and Mark Andrews for Lamar Jackson to throw the ball.
However, the season of the Ravens He was about to take an unexpected turn in the last week of the preseason when Jackson was stepped on a line and had to leave the practice due to injury. Fortunately for Baltimorethere was no serious damage; Otherwise, the team's panorama would look very different at this time.
Those who left in the low season
Los Ravens Some players lost in free agency, but they retained the most important of all with the left Tackle Ronnie Stanley, who last year played all the games of the regular season for the first time in his career.
The open receiver Nelson Agholor left, but Hopkins arrived in his place and Alexander will cover the loss of Brandon Stephens.
However, there are two great questions, after the game of the versatile offensive liner Patrick Mekari, who could play in both guard and Tackle positions.
At the moment Baltimore He has covered the positions of Guard with Andrew Vorhees and Daniel Faalele, while Roger Rosengarten covers the right Tackle, but it remains to be seen if they will not miss Mekari as the season progresses.
In the kicking position, the rookie Tyler Loop has the difficult mission of replacing one of the most precise kickers in the history of the NFL, Justin Tucker, who was cut due to his multiple extra -war problems for accusations about his behavior.
Player to follow
Derrick Henry. At the age of 31, Henry's wear should be a topic of conversation, especially after running for 1,921 yards in 325 carrying last season, not including the playoffs.
Henry's work ethics is not in doubt, however, punishment for constant blows can begin to charge it at any time and that could complicate the production of Baltimorewho has Justice Hill as his substitute.
Key section in the calendar
Los Ravens They have a complicated season, for saying at least, with matches against the Buffalo Bills (visitors, week 1), Detroit Lions (premises, week 3), Kansas City Chiefs (visitors, week 4), Houston Texans (premises, week 5) and Los Angeles Rams (premises, week 6) before their break.
There is the real possibility that Baltimore arrive with .500 foja or losing record a week of rest.
Forecast
Los Ravens They will end the season with record 11-6. Changes within the division and its hard calendar at the beginning of the season will prevent them from competing for sown No. 1 of the American Conferencealthough they will advance to the playoffs.
And the Super Bowl? It won't be this year to Baltimore. Beyond the competition they face within the AFC Norththere are two teams clearly ahead of them in the AFC They will fight for the ticket until the end.
Los Bengals They had to open the checkbook this low season with two great movements to ensure that two of their best players continue in the franchise on both sides of the ball, the open receptor J'Mar Chase and the Trey Hendrickson cazamamariscals.
In addition, the Tee Higgins open receiver also received a contract extension in Cincinnati.
Clearly the bet of the Bengals It is to keep their current talent, give continuity to the offensive headed by the quartback Joe Burrow and expect that formula to allow them to return to the Super Bowl they reached after the 2021 season.
Player to follow
Chase Brown. If there is a question with the Bengals It is its land attack, which last season ended in position No. 30 of the NFL with 1,561 yards (92.6 yards per game).
Brown ran for just 990 yards despite averaging 4.3 yards for hauling, followed by Zack Moss-who is no longer on the team-with 242 yards.
While the NFL has become a quartback league, the runner's position has regained importance and the Bengals They will need Brown constant help by land to give balance to an offensive that seems to become unidimensional.
Key section in the calendar
Cincinnati It has a brutal section between weeks 13 and 16, which includes three games away from home.
First, the Bengals They will visit the Ravens On Thursday, November 27 and then on Sunday, December 7, they will travel to measure Bills, they return home at week 15 to receive Baltimore and then travel south of Florida on December 21 to measure the Miami Dolphins.
Forecast
Los Bengals They will not end the year with a loss record, but their 9-8 Nor will it help too much in your aspirations to return to the playoffs.
Los Browns They generated an unnecessary controversy in the Quarterback position when they recruited the third round of the draft to Dillon Gabriel de Oregon and in the fifth return to Shedersur Sanders from Colorado.
And Cleveland I would have needed to cover the position, perhaps it would have been an understandable movement, but the team was under contract to Deshaun Watson-Yes, it will not play-in addition to the veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett.
With so many holes in its template, the Browns They could well invest those shifts in other positions to have a little balance, but decided to follow another path.
So when they decided to sign Tyler Huntley in the preseason-yes, a sixth quartback-due to the pickett lesion, it was not really a surprise, because if there is a team capable of taking valuable repetitions to two rookie quartbacks in search of a position to give play time to a veteran with few probabilities of staying in the template, that is precisely Cleveland.
It turned out that the BrownsAs expected, they cut Huntley, exchanged for Picktt and placed Watson on the list of physically incapacitated, staying in the active squad with Flacco and the inexperienced Gabriel and Sanders.
Player to follow
Myles Garrett. At this point I do not know if it is even an injustice to have Garrett condemned to play in a franchise as Cleveland where the playoffs seem more and more distant.
Garrett has 102.5 captures in his career and in seven of his eight years as a professional he has exceeded the double digit of captures. In addition, it adds 200 strokes to the Quarterback, 17 deviant passes, 20 forced loose balls and six loose balls recovered despite facing double marks most of the time.
Key section in the calendar
The first seven weeks of the Browns They seem a fairly complicated section to overcome, including a trip to England.
Cleveland Open the season receiving Cincinnatithen visit Baltimorereceives the Green Bay Packers, visit the Detroit Lions, receives the Minnesota Vikings in London, visit the Steelers and in week 7 he receives Miami.
Forecast
Los Browns They are closer to the first global team of the draft than of the playoffs and I really do not see them winning more than four games on the most optimistic stage, so they will end the year with 4-13.
The greatest story not only of Steelersbut from the NFL, it was Aaron Rodgers' signature with Pittsburgh.
The veteran quarter has suggested that this can be his last season in the league and if so, he will surely want to finish his career with a high note.
Los Steelers They prepared the land for the expected arrival of Rodgers with the exchange to acquire the talented open receiver DK Metcalfreinforcing a solid receptor body that will surely adjust to the needs of the talented quartback.
In addition, the Steelers They can present a good land attack to give balance to the offensive, which although it will not be spectacular, can be quite effective.
For lovers of fantasy football maybe Pittsburgh It is not the best place to look for your next big star.
Player to follow
Aaron Rodgers. There is no other player who has more reflectors on top than Rodgers in this template.
One of the greatest stories around Rodgers is that in week 8, against his former team the Green Bay Packers, will seek to become the fifth 21st Backback in the history of the NFL with victories about the 32 NFL teams, joining Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Tom Brady.
Speaking of Favre (508), the man whom he replaced in Green Bay, Rodgers-who has launched 503 TouchDown passes in his career-needs six more shipments to overcome it in the fourth place in history and if somehow he manages to launch 37 score passes, something that he has achieved six times in his career, will surpass Manning (539) to place himself in the third Brees (571) and Brady (649).
Key section in the calendar
Pittsburgh He will reach the most complicated part of his calendar in the final stretch, from week 13 that receives Buffalo, then visit Baltimore In week 14, he returns home to receive the Dolphins at “Monday Night Football”, travels to Detroit in week 16 and after a visit to Cleveland The season will close receiving the Ravensprobably with the ticket to the playoffs at stake.
Forecast
While I don't think Rodgers and Steelers Gain the Super Bowl this year, it seems to me that we will see them playing in January after finishing the season with a record 11-6… how North AFC Champions.
