With Week 11 of the 2021 NFL season underway, all 32 teams have now played at least half of their 17-game schedule. Surprisingly, cresting the midpoint of the campaign has produced little clarity to the big picture.
Every club has at least two losses, yet 19 check in at .500 or better, and just five are more than 1½ games removed from holding a playoff spot – only the Lions completely out of the running in the NFC. And the field is compressing, division-leading teams suffering eight losses over the past two weeks to opponents that did not have winning records.