There’s nothing like fresh power rankings in the afterglow of the draft. There is so much more that we know about teams after their draft classes are in place, even if it continues to pale by a wide margin to that which we don’t know. But as humans, we have a compulsion to systematize and categorize the world around us, and that manifests itself in the form of lists and rankings.
The NFL Network’s latest primordial compulsion of systemization was released yesterday, a fresh new Power Rankings list published by Dan Hanzus, which reflects the Pittsburgh Steelers actually losing ground, falling down one spot from having previously been ranked 10th in the league to now 11th.